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“It seems clear that Williams is the twentieth-century poet who has done most to influence our very conception of what poetry should do, and how much it does not need to.”

— Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of Books on William Carlos Williams's By Word of Mouth

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  • Pearls

    The New Directions Pearl series offers short masterpieces by great authors at enticing prices: under $10! The Pearl series presents short works from contemporary masters such as César Aira and Javier Marías, and also includes relaunches of several ND Bibelots, which introduced readers to seminal works by classic ND authors such as Borges and Mishima.

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The Walk
The Night Before Christmas
The Hall of the Singing Caryatids
On Booze
The Leviathan
Everything And Nothing
The Literary Conference
In Search Of Duende
Patriotism

Bad Nature, Or With Elvis In Mexico
Tales Of Desire
Urn Burial

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."

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