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directions
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SPRING
THE STRANGE ISLANDS, POEMS
by Thomas Merton
New poetry written over the past seven years and a
modern allegorical play in verse, "The Tower of
Babel," by the author of
The Seven-Store1l Mountain
and
Seeds of Contemplation.
$3.00
THE HOLY TERRORS
by Jean Cocteau
translated by Rosamond Lehmann
Le8 En/ants Terribles,
that poignant story of young
hellions, is finally rendered into a scintillating English
version that may well establish it as firmly in America
as it has been in France. Illustrated with 20 drawings
by Cocteau.
$3.00
THE SORROWS OF PRIAPUS
by Edward Dahlberg
with drawings by Ben Shahn
Maxims, mirth and an American myth compose a
major philosophic statement by the writer whom Sir
Herbert Read calls "the greatest prose stylist of our
times."
$6.50
WOMEN OF TRACHIS
by Sophokles
translated by Ezra Pound
Sophokles'
Trachiniae
in Ezra Pound's Americanized
version about which T. S. Eliot has written: "His
(Pound's) handling of the verse ... seems to me
masterly. His ear is as faultless as ever."
$3.00
BIG SUR AND THE ORANGES OF HIERONYMUS BOSCH
by Henry Miller
With his old vitality Henry Miller here describes–
in stories, sketches, fantasy and serious discussion–
the earthly paradise he has found on the California
coast and the devils, human and natural, who have
threatened it. Illustrated.
$6.50
1957 COMEDY, SATIRE, IRONY
&
DEEPER MEANING
by Christian-Dietrich Grabbe
The hilarious 19th-century play, a precursor of sur–
realism and modern poetry, by an author whom Heine
considered a genius, cleverly translated by Barbara
Wright in a luxurious, illustrated edition.
$5.50
NEW DIRECTIONS 16
This new anthology in the well-known series is de–
voted to the work of over 20 new American writers
and includes 40 "lost" poems by William Carlos
Williams and contributions from Henry Miller, Eric
Bentley and Kenneth Rexroth.
$2.50
New Directions, 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 14
