| Description |
246 pages ; 21 cm. |
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A New directions paperbook, P113
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New Directions paperbook ; 113.
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| Note |
Essays. |
| Contents |
Sung culture -- Who am I? Where am I going??? -- The poet as translator -- The Holy Kabbalah -- American Indian songs -- Turner and Whistler -- What's wrong with the clubs -- Science and civilization in China -- The letters of Van Gogh -- Mark Twain -- The students take over -- Henry James and H.G. Wells -- Lawrence Durrell -- Gnosticism -- The influence of French poetry on American -- Notes on historians -- The new poetry -- Simone Weil -- A public letter for William Carlos Williams' seventy-fifth birthday -- Poets, old and new |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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