NEW DIRECTIONS
THE COLLECTED EARLIER
POEMS
of William Carlos Williams
includes all the work in verse written be–
tween 1906 and 1939 which Dr. Wil–
liams wishes to preserve. It is a compan–
ion volume to "The Collected later
Poems" ($3.00) published last year, which
contains his short poems of the dec–
ade of the Forties. Seen as a whole,
Williams' life work in poetry assumes a
depth and an importance which places
him among the chief American poets
of
his generation.
$5.00
THE BEETLE LEG
by John Hawkes
has the qualities of a distilled Western
and all the suspense of a mystery novel.
Narrative and poetry, symbolism and
psychology blend powerfully together
in a style of often danling originality.
The
author of "The Cannibal" extends
his technique of distortion, innovation
and novelistic imagining to the Ameri–
can West--and the building of a great
irrigation dam.
$2.50
THE BRIGAND
by Giuseppe Berto,
author of the bestselling "The Sky is
Red", is about an idealistic ex-soldier
who returns to his native, poverty-strick.
en Italian village to organize the peas–
ants against the rich absentee land–
lords. As a kind of modern Robin Hood,
his actions deeply affect the villagers–
and especially the two adolescents,
Nino and Miliella.
$2.75
THE NORTH SEA
by Heinrich
Heine is one of the great master–
pieces of German 19th century litera–
ture. The new and remarkably beautiful
translations are by one of England's
leading poets of the younger genera–
tion: Vernon Watkins. The book has
been hand set by Carroll Coleman at
his Prairie Press, and the original Ger–
man texts are printed facing the trans–
lations.
$3.00
CONFUCIUS# THE UNWOB·
BLiNG PIVOT
&.
THE GREAT
DIGEST#
with translation and com–
mentary by Ezra Pound and introduc–
tion by ArchilJes Fang. Pound has al–
ways been a profound admirer of Con–
fucius-his understanding of the mas–
ter's teachings deepening with the–
years. He believes that Chinese civili–
zation rose and renewed itself on the
principles which Confucius learned from
life.
$3.50
THE CASTLE OF ARGOL
by Jul–
ien Gracq is a combination of the eerie
atmosphere of a Gothic novel, the Sur–
realist imagination and the style-as-sen–
sibility of Proust. Three strange people
come to live in an ancient castle hid–
den in a lonely forest by the Brittany
shore. In this overcast, no man's land.
they indulge in the geometry of ab–
stract will and desire. Translated by
Louise Varese.
$1.50
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