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This tenth annual "exhibition gallery" of tr.ends in contemporary
writing is notable for the very large number of promising new
"discov·eries" it contains. In addition to these exciting new writers,
there are such special features as: little anthologies of contemporary
Fr-ench, Italian and Peruvian poetry: photographs of the ruins
of Munich: and provocative essays on the American scene by Evelyn
Waugh and Mary McCarthy. There are also representative pieces
by Agee, Bowles, Celine, Eberhart, Eluard, Lowry, Michaux, Rosen–
feld, Viereck, Tennessee Williams and thirty-four others.
$4.50
Many English critics consider Edith Sitwell one of the most important
poets writing today. Miss Sitwell and her brother Sir Osbert Sitwell
are now in America on a lecture tour. To celebrate their visit New
Directions is publishing a critical symposium on her work by several
of the leading writers of our time, including Gertrude Stein, Stephen
Spender, Frederic Prokosch, Charles Morgan-as well as a selection
of her most important poems.
$1.50
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