NEW DIRECTIONS BOOKS
NINA BERBEROVA
Spring 2001
THE TATTERED CLOAK. Tr. by Schwartz. The greatest collection by the great Russian
writer is now back in print. "Sublime."
-LA Times. An ND Classic.
$14.95 paperbook.
FREDERICK BUSCH
WAR BABIES. Novel. A man searches for the daughter of a Korean War hero who died
in the same P.O.W. camp as his father. "Driving intensity..."-chicago
Trilmne.
$12.95 pbk.
VEZA CANETfI
THE TORTOISES. Tr. by Mitchell. A devastating novel about an Austrian Jewish couple
whose lives are destroyed by rising Nazism in 1938. Never before in English. $24.95 cloth
INGER CHRISTENSEN
alphabet. Tr. by Nied. Now in English, an award-winning collection of startling, gorgeous
poetry based on Fibonacci's sequence, by Denmark's most admired poet. $10.95 pbk. orig.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
HOW TO PAINT SUNLIGHT. A new collection of lyrical poems by
San
Francisco's first
poet laureate. He remains "one of our ageless radicals and true bards"
(Booklist).
$19.95
c1.
ALLEN GROSSMAN
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH TEARS. Award-winning Grossman's ninth book of new
poetry is of mythic proportions, showing the compassionate side of men. $14.95 pbk. orig.
YOEL HOFFMANN
THE HEART IS KATMANDU.
Tr.
by Cole. A modern love story in which shyness and
tenderness emerge triumphant by Israel's "avant-garde genius"(Forward). $22.95
d.
DENISE LEVERTOV
POEMS 1972-1982. Three classic volumes are now available in a lovely single edition:
The
Freeing ofthe Dust
(1975);
Life in the Forest
(1978), and
Candles in Babylon
(1982). $14.95 pbk.
JAVIER MARiAS
DARK BACK OF TIME.
Tr.
by Allen. New mysterious novel about memory by "the most
subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature"
(Boston Globe).
$26.95
d.
MICHAEL PALMER
"The most influential avant-gardist working..." -Joshua Clover,
The Village Voice
CODES APPEARING: POEMS 1979-1988. Landmark vol. containing 3 influential and
exciting collections:
Notes for Echo
Lake
(1981),
First Figure
(1984),
Sun
(1988). $19.95 pbk.
THE PROMISES OF GLASS. Palmer's newest collection is now a paperbook. $13.95 pbk.
MURIEL SPARK
LOITERING WITH INTENT. A funny, strange novel about members of an Autobio–
graphical Assoc. "A delirium of delight." -NYTimes
Book Rev. An ND Classic.
$13.95 pbk.
FEDERIGO TOZZI
LOVE IN VAIN: SELECTED STORIES. Tr. by Proctor. Debut collection of twenty stories
in English by one of Italy's most distinguished early modern writers. $14.95 pbk. orig.
PAUL WEST
A FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. New brutal novel about the events surrounding Guy Fawkes
and the English Gunpowder Plot of 1605. "Amaster."
-The
Wash. Post Bk.World.
$25.95 d .
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
FUGmVE KIND. Ed. w /intro. by Hale. An early play (1937) about star-crossed lovers,
gangsters, and G-men set in a flophouse on the St. Louis waterfront. $1295 pbk. orig.
THE THEATRE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOL 8.
Vieux
Carrt,
A Lovely Sunday
for
Creve Coeur, Clothes for a Summer Hotel,
and
The
Red Deuil Battery Sign.
$22.95 pbk.
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