annual anthology of advance
guard prose and poetry
A new American translation of "Woyzeck," written by
Georg Buechner about 1835
Long poems by Kenneth Rexroth and Mark Van Doren
Two excerpts from Henry Miller's "Plexus"
A group of new poems by Tennessee Williams
Stories by Paul Bowles, Gore Vidal, Robert Lowry and
John Hawkes
A one-act play by William Inge
"Indirect Suicide," an Irrealist novella by Maurice Toesca
Excerpts from Edward Dahlberg's "Flea of Sodom"
Photographs of sculpture by Michael Lekakis
PROSE by Anatole Broyard, Melville Cane, R. V. Cassill,
Jack Dunphy, Otto Friedrich, Elaine Gottlieb, W. H.
Hutton, Liz Jacobsen, Leslie Katz, Seymour Krim, John
S. Lawson, Meyer Liben, Giorgio Monicelli (Italy), Philip
Siekevitz, Elliott Stein and Karl Vietor.
POETRY by Paul Blackburn , Richard Eberhart, Paul Eluard
(France), William Everson, Edward Field, Andrew Glaze,
Robert Hazel, Anthony Hecht, Dan G. Hoffman, David
Lougee, Mina Loy, Ben Moore, Lorine Niedecker, Charles
Olson, F. T. Prince (England), Dachine Rainer, Robert
Shelley, May Swenson, Ruthven Todd, Peter Viereck
and William Carlos Williams.
$5.00
TRANSLATIONS OF BAUDELAIRE. Any reader who happens to
know of the existence of especially fine translations of any of the
poems of Baudelaire is requested to get in touch with Jackson
Mathews, c/o New Directions.
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