Filter: Late 20th Century American Poetry - (31 titles)

New Selected Poems & Translations

New Selected Poems & Translations
Pre-Faces & Other Writings

Pre-Faces & Other Writings
Light Up the Cave

Light Up the Cave
Sweet Youth

Sweet Youth
Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen

Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen
To Paris

To Paris
The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978

The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978
Herald Of The Autochthonic Spirit

Herald Of The Autochthonic Spirit
Expecting

Expecting
Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth

Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
We Are The Fire

We Are The Fire
New Selected Poems 1970-1985

New Selected Poems 1970-1985
In The Dark Before Dawn

In The Dark Before Dawn
New Collected Poems

New Collected Poems
That Dada Strain

That Dada Strain
At The Sky’s Edge: Poems 1991-1996

At The Sky’s Edge: Poems 1991-1996
Ear In Bartram’s Tree

Ear In Bartram’s Tree
Hermetic Definition

Hermetic Definition
Vienna Blood

Vienna Blood
The Bones Of The Earth

The Bones Of The Earth
Oblique Prayers

Oblique Prayers
Clio’s Children

Clio’s Children
Asphalt Georgics

Asphalt Georgics
Classics Revisited

Classics Revisited
The Bright Nails Scattered On The Ground

The Bright Nails Scattered On The Ground
Tell Me Again How The White Heron Rises .....

Tell Me Again How The White Heron Rises .....
Mirrors

Mirrors
Memory Gardens

Memory Gardens
Echoes

Echoes
Torn Awake

Torn Awake
Europe Of Trusts

Europe Of Trusts

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."