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1) Nightwood
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New Directions paperbook volume 1049
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English
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The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece—one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a world...Author
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English
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Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, encompassing almost all of his production in verse, from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Flowers of Evil It is a major work of modern poetry. His pieces break with agreed style, in use until then and rejuvenate the structure of the verse by regular use of crossings, rejects and counter-rejects. This renovates the rigid form of the sonnet. He uses suggestive images by...
6) On haiku
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New Directions paperbook volume NDP1426
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x, 294 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, and loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as for its ease of composition. Haiku is an ancient literary form seemingly made for the Twittersphere--Jack Kerouac and Langston Hughes wrote them, Ezra Pound and the Imagists were inspired by them, first-grade students...
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New Directions paperbook volume 131
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xviii, 174 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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New Directions paperbook volume 186
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xxiii, 260 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
10) Selected poems
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New Directions paperbook volume 66
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184 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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New Directions paperbook volume 1142
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xv, 285 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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A bilingual collection of the works of the award-winning Chicano poet features poems that draw on the author's experiences as a father and a prisoner and on the lush, and sometimes stark, landscape of the Rio Grande Valley.
Eta primera selección bilingüe presenta lo mejor de su poesía al lado de traducciones al español hechas especialmente para este volumen. Se trata de un juego encantador de idiomas que revolotea con sus experiencias como poeta...
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New Directions paperbook volume 316
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xviii, 203 pages : portrait ; 20 cm.
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English
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New Directions paperbook volume 992
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xvi, 366 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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New Directions paperbook volume 1211
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xx, 103 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
15) Stephen hero
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New Directions paperbook volume 133
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253 pages : group portrait, facsimiles ; 21 cm.
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English
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This early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in which Stephen Daedalus rebels against church, country and family, is taken from an incomplete manuscript and is supported by literary and bibliographical notes.
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New Directions paperbook volume 1467
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68 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
Description
"Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed's Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell." --
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New Directions paperbook volume 302
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292 pages, 11 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
19) The factory
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New Directions paperbook volume 1460
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116 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents. Life in the factory has its own logic and momentum, and, eventually, the factory slowly expands and begins to take over everything, enveloping these poor workers. The very margins of reality...
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New Directions paperbook volume 612
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317 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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