Synopses & Reviews
This 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
Synopsis
Collections 1-12 in New Directions' Poetry Pamphlet series
About the Author
Osama Alomar was born in Damascus, Syria in 1968 and now lives in Chicago. A poet, short-story writer, and musician, Alomar is the author of three collections of short stories and a volume of poetry. He is a regular contributor to various newspapers and journals within the Arab world.Lydia Davis is currently a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.H.D. (1886-1961) (the pen name of Hilda Doolittle) was born in the Moravian community of Bethlehem, PA in 1886. A major twentieth century poet with "an ear more subtle than Pound's, Moore's, or Yeats's" as Marie Ponsot writes, she was the author of several volumes of poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs. She is perhaps one of the best-known and prolific women poets of the Modernist era. Bryher Ellerman was a novelist and H.D.'s wealthy companion. She financed H.D.'s therapy with Freud.The poet, publisher, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation. He is the subject of Christopher Felver's new film documentary, Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder.Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia and has degrees in geology and English literature.