Selected letters depict the development of the friendship between Williams and Laughlin, a young publisher
" But in "The Way It Wasn't" James Laughlin's love of the crazy world and his crazier authors does not pinch a bit: it glows with wit and enlarges our feeling for the late great twentieth century.
Something to say Bill had taken me back , but I still wanted to make my Mea culpa to him . ... Ben Sharan William Carlos Williams on Younger Poets EDITED BY JAMES E. B. BRESLIN A young publisher , Marshall MacDonald , drives out from ...
Selected Letters Henry Miller, James Laughlin George Wickes. 1 ALSO IN THE SERIES William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin : Selected Letters Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin : Selected Letters Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin ...
The thirty-year correspondence between the religious writer and his faithful publisher traces the widening of Merton's focus from the internal to the social and global, and the development of his consciousness of himself as a public writer.
The remarkable development of Thomas Merton--monk, poet, and social critic--as documented in nearly thirty years of correspondence with his publisher.
Still, with his life as entwined as it was with New Directions, Laughlin speaks often and interestingly about some of the giants of the modern period -- most often Ezra Pound, in whose work Davenport had a deep interest.
The part I liked best in Assault on Mount Helicon is MB's account of a few weeks she spent at Norfolk in 1937 doing odd jobs for Jimmy Higgins , who was there running the New Directions office in the stable which my aunt had converted ...
As a poet, the late James Laughlin was perhaps best known for his love lyrics. This is a collection of his love poems.
James Laughlin, the late founder and publisher of New Directions, was also a poet of elegance and distinction. At his death in 1997 at the age of eighty-three, he left unfinished his long autobiographical poem, Byways.
Thomas Lanier Williams, who had just started to go by "Tennessee," was a young playwright literally making a name for himself. James Laughlin had all of six years of publishing experience under his belt as the founder of New Directions.
The chronicle of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin’s unlikely yet enduring literary and personal relationship.
A longer, comical line is found in the recent poems of Laughlin's doppelganger, Hiram Handspring. The Man in the Wall follows Laughlin's recent Collected Poems (Moyer Bell Limited).
Selected letters depict the development of the friendship between Schwartz and Laughlin, a young publisher
A compilation of 249 poems composed in a five-line stanza form
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A little gem. Laughlin, founder and publisher of New Directions, employs an unpretentious free-verse meter and a colloquial tone in this recollection of Williams' work, taken from a longer poem-in- progress, Byways.
A collection of two hundred poems reflects on such topics as love, aging, children, writing, and travel
Poems examine the hidden memories, thoughts, and emotions in each individual
Random Essays: Recollections of a Publisher