A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism.The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essaysâ€”as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passosâ€”tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."

The Crack Up

Literature & Fiction

Fitzgerald,F.Scott

History & Criticism

New Directions Publishing

This collection brings together in one volume all of John Hawkes's shorter fictions, a number of which have been out of print for some years. It includes six short stories, his novel, and the two short novels The Owl and The Goose on the Grave, written in the early 1940s. Each brings us more of the extraordinary qualities of imagination, and the unique prose style, that have made John Hawkes one of the most admired American writers of his generation.

Lunar Landscapes

HAWKES, John

Fifteen of the most celebrated plays of the Noh theatre repertory aregiven here in their entirety and five more are presented in synopsis.The translations are grounded in a critical discussion of the Nohtheatre, its history and place in the court life of Japan, adescription of the stage on which it is performed, its music, costumes,and masks, and the dance which is usually the high point of theperformance. Both Pound and Fenollosa discuss the special elements ofNoh poetry, and Pound's poetic organization of Fenollosa'sauthoritative translation and notes creates a fortunate collaboration.

The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan (New Directions Paperbook)

Dramas & Plays

The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'" "Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"––the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'" Central to the work is a cycle of songs for Snyder's wife, Masa, and their first son, Kai. Probing even further than Snyder's previous collection of poems, The Back Country, this new volume freshly explores "the most archaic values on earth… the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe…”

Regarding Wave

Gary Snyder

Poetry

B.S. Johnson, House Mother Normal. A geriatric comedy with a bite.

Finnegans Wake: A Symposium

Joyce., James

British & Irish

Portraits and the Poses

Brock, Edwin

Cardenal, In Cuba. The Nicaraguan Poet-Priest muses over Cuba

In Cuba (New Directions Books)

Cardenal, Ernesto

Minds Meet

ABISH, Walter

A biography on the writer and playwright Heinrich von Kleist

Heinrich Von Kleist: The Major Works (New Directions Books)

Helbling, Robert E.

from DISCRETE SERIES to 1975 (excluding PRIMITIVE)

The Collected Poems of George Oppen

George Oppen

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