New Directions in Prose and Poetry

A staking out of positions anthology containing first appearances in English of Brecht’s Mother Courage, Ezra Pound’s “Augment of the Novel”, Vladimir Nabokov’s “Hodassevich: A Note and Translations”; other contributions by Franz Kafka, André Breton, Edouard Dujardin, Wright Morris (photographs), Julien Gracq, Hugh MacDiarmid, and many others, including Delmore Schwartz and John Berryman who have both signed this copy; 730pp. Followed by “Literary Information”: trade advertisements for Accent, Fantasy, Horizon, Diogenes, Decision, Hamlet Vol.II by Henry Miller and Michael Fraenkel, Twice a Year, Print, The Harvard Advocate, Sur, Story, most strands of the New Directions’ catalogue and similar East Coast publishers; a micro survey of American small press publishing, in elegant advertisements, on the eve of that country’s entry into World War Two, 35pp.

Publisher: New Directions. First American edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: Norfolk, CT
Near fine in fine dustwrapper.


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