New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
7 primary works
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Poetry Pamphlets 1-4
by Lydia Davis, Eliot Weinberger, Susan Howe, Bernadette Mayer, and Sylvia Legris
The first four collections in our revitalized Poetry Pamphlet series, established to highlight original work from writers around the world as well as forgotten treasures lost in the cracks of literary history.
Included are: Two American Scenes: Our Village & A Journey on the Colorado River, by Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger; Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Chris Marker, by Susan Howe; The Helens of Troy, New York, by Bernadette Mayer; and Pneumatic Antiphonal, by Sylvia Legris.
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Poetry Pamphlets 1-12 (Boxed Set)
by Osama Alomar, Lydia Davis, Hilda Doolittle, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Forrest Gander, Oliverio Girondo, Susan Howe, Sylvia Legris, Bernadette Mayer, and Dunya Mikhail
This boxed set of the first twelve collections in the New Directions Poetry Pamphlet series contains:
Osama Alomar's Fullbood Arabian
H. D.'s Vale Ave
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Blast Cries Laughter
Forrest Gander's Eiko & Koma
Oliverio Girondo's Poems to Read on a Streetcar
Susan Howe's Sorting Facts, or 19 Ways of Looking at Chris Marker
Sylvia Legris's Pneumatic Antiphonal
Bernadette Mayer's The Helens of Troy, New York
Dunya Mikhail's 15 Iraqi Poets
Alejandra Pizarnik's A Musical Hell
Nathaniel Tarn's The Beautiful Contradictions
Lydia Davis & Eliot Weinberger's Two American Scenes
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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris — her first publication in the U.S.
An excerpt:
The theory of corpuscular flight is the cardinal premise
of red birds carrying song-particles carrying oxygen.
Erythrocytic. Sticky. Five quarts of migration.
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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe’s masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout.
An excerpt:
Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammar
has no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to record something
because I am a survivor in this ocean.
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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material."
Excerpts:
It was given to me, in the nineteenth century,
to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrows
that are appointed unto men, I have had innumerable enjoyments;
and the world has been to me, even from childhood,a great museum.
— Lydia Davis
Bad rapids. Bradley is knocked over the side; his foot catches
under the seat and he is dragged, head under water. Camped on
a sand beach, the wind blows a hurricane. Sand piles over us like
a snow-drift.
— Eliot Weinberge
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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", All the Helens of Troy is Bernadette Mayers's profile of all of the Helens living in Troy, New York, done with poems and images, mixing the classical with the ordinary and delightful intelligence with irreverence.
An excerpt:
everybody died
there’s nothing more to say
my hair’s braided like a family
i took off, it was fun, i loved it
if you did something wrong, they punished you
one helen is enough, trust me