NEW DIRECTIONS
SELECTED POEMS
of Muriel
Rukeyser is a representative selection
of the poetry of one of America's best
younger poets. These poems were
chosen by Miss Rukeyser herself from
all her previous volum.es of published
verse, beginning with "Theory of Flight"
in 1935 and coming up to her recent
long poem "Orpheus."
$1.50
THE POETRYOF EZRAPOUND
by Hugh Kenner presents a detailed
study of the poetic development of
Ezra Pound. Mr. Kenner demonstrates
how Pound's poetry itself works out the
critical positions set forth in his writ–
ings about literature and the art of
verse. He deals with the earlier poems
and translations, but chief emphasis is
on "The Cantos." Included is a graphic
chart of the structure of "The Cantos"
which illustrates the pattern of recur–
rent themes.
$4.00
SELECTED WRITINGS
of Henri
Michaux have been chosen by the poet
himself from all his earlier volumes of
prose poems, sketches and free verse.
Truly a unique figure in contemporary
literature, his writings are a battle be–
tween horror and humor; his sardonic
vignettes, and wry, oblique prose poems
are a delight of fantasy. Bilingual edi–
tion, with translations by Richard Ell–
man.
$3.50
SIDDHARTHA,
a
mystical romance
by Hermann Hesse, winner of the 1946
Nobel Prize, tells of the lifelong quest
of a young Indian in search of the
final answer to the great enigma of
man's role on this earth. A long tortuous
road leads Siddhartha from the posi–
tion as disciple of Buddha to final re–
nunciation and self-knowledge. First Eng–
lish translation by Hilda Rosner. $1.50
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UNDER WESTERN EYES
by
Joseph Conrad is a novel of Russian
Anti-Czarist conspiracy and the secret
police. Although written in 1911 about
the early 1900's, the key problems of
today - despotism, terror and con–
science, political morality - are drama–
tized by
a
master of human psychology
in this exciting story of betrayal, atone–
ment and self-redemption. Introduction
by Morton D. Zabel.
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by William Carlos
Williams, a m.odern personal epic set in
the industrial town of Paterson, New
Jersey, is now complete in a New Class–
ics edition. Dr. Williams has sought to
go forward with Walt Whitman's dream
of a verse form which would be es–
sentially American in rhythm and feel–
ing. "Paterson" emerges as one of the
monumental poetic statements of our
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