books about: paperbook     books:       Captain's Verses (New Directions Paperbook)13 reviews Pablo Neruda New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1972 the heart of Neruda This is a fabulous dual-language collection of some of the most sensual, passionate poems written in modern times. Whether he imagines himself as an insect making a journey "from your hips to your feet", traveling to distant places with his beloved by his side, or as a soldier who must leave but whose love will "go on singing until the end of life", Neruda writes with exquisite simplicity, and ...             Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook)6 reviews Charles Baudelaire New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970 Baudelaire Vents His Spleen at the Outside World The book that helped me overcome my prejudice against poetry--I carried "Paris Spleen" around with me for a couple of weeks after I first read it, and kept turning back to certain poems as I went about my daily errands. Even though it's nearly 150 years old it seems as timely and contemporary as it must have seemed when it was first published--absolutely top-notch.             Absent Friends (New Directions Paperbook, 721)4 reviews Frederick Busch New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1991 deeply felt Busch is a very perceptive writer and the stories in this book is realistic fiction at its best. He possesses so much wisdom about the pragmatics of life and infuses them with humor and genuine human emotions. I especially love the story Ralph the Duck where he becomes another Holden Caulfield, a lovable loser who eventually becomes a hero. Highly recommended.             The Blue Flowers (New Directions Paperbook)6 reviews Raymond Queneau New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1985 The ultimate in literary 'vice versa'. 'The Blue Flowers' is the most lovable of all Raymond Queneau's novels, one of those rare books you never want to end (for me, the only others I can think of are 'Huckleberry Finn' and 'Dance to the music of time'). It relates two paralell narratives (or rather - and Queneau is the great mathematical novelist! - base and perpendicular narratives): the historical narrative of the endearingly ...             A Child's Christmas in Wales24 reviews Dylan Thomas New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995 The voice If you have read A Child's Christmas in Wales, you know that it has to be a classic. But you can't fully appreciate it until you have heard Dylan Thomas read it. What a deep, expressive, poetic voice. For years, I have listened to the recording on a Caedman record. It is wonderful to have it on a CD.             Way of Chuang Tzu (New Directions Paperbook)18 reviews Thomas Merton New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969 Like a fine wine ... Like a fine wine, this collection is best consumed slowly. As it is clearly stated in the foreward, this is not a faithful reproduction of Chuang Tzu but a collection of personal and spiritual interpretations of his work. Readers that expected otherwise might consider reading the description of the book before purchasing it. It would seem embarassing to write a negative review of a product ...             Mickelsson's Ghosts (New Directions Paperbook)12 reviews John Gardner New Directions, 2008 A deeply thoughtful work I can think of no book read over my 40 years of adult reading as deeply moving and thought-provoking as this book. The way I gauge the effect a book is having on me is the speed at which I am reading it - the slower I read it the more I am being affected, and the duration and frequency of times the book is remembered. I have never read a book as slowly as this one, and many years after reading ...             Henry Miller on Writing (New Directions Paperbook)6 reviews Henry Miller New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1964 Definitely Pick Up A Copy! If you read Henry Miller, you are well aware that his use of language is both poetic and direct. He does little apologizing, and this book follows that philosophy. The book is a gathering of previously and not previously published works concerning the art of writing. It is edited by Thomas H. Moore, who worked with Miller to complete it. Throughout the pages we see Miller in familiar lighting ...             The Sea and Poison (New Directions Paperbook, No. 737)13 reviews Shusaku Endo New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1992 The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil Edmund Burke would have agreed with Endo's novel "The Sea and Poison". Although a short novel, it is one that delves into some very deep issues about morality and the ethics of passively accepting evil in one's presence. Contrary to another review, "The Sea and Poison" is not based on the activities of Unit 731 in Manchuria at all. The novel is based on the vivisection of 8 B29 crewmen at ...             Futility (New Directions Paperbook, 718)7 reviews William Gerhardie New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1991 This is not Morgan Robertson's "Wreck of the Titan" I actually haven't read the book, but came here on foot of a recommendation from William Boyd in the Times Literary Supplement. This is not Morgan Robertson's "Futility - the Wreck of the Titan" - as other reviewers seem to think!             Conversations in Sicily3 reviews Elio Vittorini New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000 If your interested in this, go ahead and read it... Had to read this for my Italian Lit class, and I'm glad I did. Otherwise I would've never known about the book. The historical background is really interesting...written in WWII-era fascist Italy, it is an anti-fascist novel and I'm surprised that it initially did get past the censors. Keep this in mind; the anti-fascist sentiment becomes clearer and clearer as you read: there's a reason ...             An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (New Directions Paperbook)4 reviews Cesar Aira New Directions, 2006 Episode of Life Recently a friend of mine went to Buenas Aires and returned with this short novel. I'd been doing a little study on Monet lately and this title caught my eye. What an amazing writer this Aira is. Of cours his writing is in Spanish but this English translation I beleive fully capture the fullness of thought process. It is a story without chapter breakdown and yet,though full of eclectic ...             Final Exam (New Directions Paperbook)3 reviews Julio Cortazar New Directions, 2008 Foggy notions Final exam is a hazy book . What the eyes of Andres Favas shows us is not only a foggy Buenos Aires but a journey into the labyrinths of the late 50's intelectuality. Where does it take him? nowhere of course... inertia is the result of extenuating thinking , so Andre and his friends talk , read , define and redifine life but go nowhere while a surreal city burns. Cortazar always enjoyed ...             Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (A New Directions paperbook)3 reviews W. C. Williams New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1967 The American Literary Genius of the 20th Century This autobiography will be recognised 100 years from now as the key to understanding the genius of Williams. He is the preeminent figure in 20th Century American Literature and will inevitably be recognized as such.             Imaginations (A New Directions paperbook)4 reviews William Carlos Williams New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970 Acrobat of the imagination William Carlos Williams' "Imaginations" collects five complete works of the great american poet. As excursions into experimental literature these five examples cannot be beat. The compelling and lucid examinations of the working imagination by one of the best acrobats of the imagination. All originally published in small editions and finally available again as they were before being hacked up ...             Poems from the Book of Hours: Das Stundenbuch (New Directions Paperbook, 408)4 reviews Rainer Maria Rilke New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1988 Now Classic Such a small book. That so few German poems, with English translations made by Babette Deutsch and first published in 1941, are still available in a cover that matches what I bought years ago bears witness to the power of the poems included here. With so little to skip through, this book made me want to examine the German for clues about how few words could mean so much. The best clue is in ...             The Selected Poems of Po Chu-I (New Directions Paperbook)4 reviews Chu-I Pai, Po Chu-I New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999 Mr. Hinton's amazing, sensitive work A Servant Girl Is Missing From the low walls of our small courtyard to the notice-board outside our district gate, I've searched and searched, ashamed our love proved meager, wishing I could do it all over. But a caged bird can't bear a master for long, and the branch means nothing to a blossom freed on the wind. Where can she be tonight? Only the moon's understanding light knows. This ...             These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-19934 reviews Lawrence Ferlinghetti New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1994 Total Bliss... This collection of poems from Ferlinghetti opens the mind due to it's variation of poems from over the years. His style has remained the same yet we see a different side of Ferlinghetti with each era of poems. This was very enjoyable and I recommend it highly.             The Collected Stories (New Directions Paperbook)3 reviews Dylan Thomas New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1986 Prose poems perhaps Was Dylan thomas the consummate craftsman? Indeed, he was; and took real delight in his gifts and his exercise of them; he was a Celtic bard in the truest sense of that role -- the lonely public/private man who carried within him the lyric history of his race, the love of his language and a very vocal sense of wonder over his role in life; that he had song, yes; that he was funny, loud, ...             The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (New Directions Paperbook)3 reviews Thomas Merton New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1980 A Must for the Merton Fan Although a mystic and an intellectual, Merton shines as a poet as well. Rarely spoken of, his poetry reflects his simple and eloquent beliefs regarding God. 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