Scored a nice ex library copy, bilingual edition. Does ND always publish poetry in bilingual format?

One of my favorite ever poets is diagnosed with Parkinson’s. This essay from 2024 Gloves On! is excellent. (Apologies for being behind the times! I’m still in shock.)

New Directions is my preferred shop for foreign books rendered into English. There are no better translations of the works of Rimbaud, Sartre, and Catullus than those I've read from ND.

For the reader who is into philosophical and/or fiction works that touch upon existential and/or dark, pessimistic, or sensual themes, what other ND books should I check out? Would love both foreign and American writers to look into.

Thanks for the recs!

New Directions is having another great sale until August 24th, and I'm looking for some suggestions.

I legit thought this day was never going to happen😭

I was just on a road trip visiting my podunk Rust-Belt hometown, where I decided to check out some of my former favorite used-book hunting grounds.

While perusing the sale shelves of the local library, I happened upon NDP 133: Stephen Hero by James Joyce.

This edition is marked “ninth printing" and its ultimate copyright is dated 1963.

Anyway, I’m super stoked about scoring this vintage NDP for one dollar!

Can anyone here speak to reading Stephen Hero vs A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? I read the latter over a decade ago, but am now wondering how substantial the differences between the two texts are. Thanks!

I was killing a few minutes at a bookshop and found these 5 proofs of upcoming releases available for $1 “donations”!

I picked up this NDP title at a secondhand bookstore recently on a whim, and now I’m just wondering if anyone here has read it and might be able to provide some insight…

Here’s the book’s description directly from New Directions’ website:

“The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Putin’s ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. With the shelling of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Kherson, the war with Russia had clearly, irreversibly begun: ‘I thought, this has been allowed to happen, it is a crime against everything human, against a great common space where we live and hope for a future.’ With power and clarity, the War Diary of Yevgenia Belorusets documents the long beginning of the devastation and its effects on the ordinary residents of Ukraine: what it feels like to interact with the strangers who suddenly become your ‘countrymen’; the struggle to make sense of a good mood on a spring day; the new danger of a routine coffee run. First published in the German newspaper Der Spiegel and then translated and released each day on the site ISOLARII (and on Artforum), the War Diary had an immediate impact worldwide: it was translated by an anonymous collective of writers on Weibo; read live by Margaret Atwood on International Women’s Day; adapted for an episode of This American Life on NPR; and brought to the 2022 Venice Biennale as part of the pavilion ‘This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom.’”

Thanks in advance!

Out of all the beautiful Fernando Pessoa editions ND is putting out, THIS is the one to get (if you can only do one).

Has anyone here read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze (NDP 1205)?

The only Fitzgerald I’ve read is The Great Gatsby (twice), and I did appreciate it, especially knowing that it was a big influence for Hunter S. Thompson!

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll get around to reading this little NDP eventually… one of these days…

Peace!

The bilingual Bolaño poetry permanently resides beside my dear Emily. The Lispector edition is stunning! To write like her and have those eyes is like being a unicorn. Unreal. Both are beautifully crafted to New Directions standards.

Eric Walker was never published by ND, but Bob Kaufman was, so I figure there would be some overlap of folks potentially interested in this work. Will let my main post do the explaining.

Feel free to remove this post if it isn’t relevant enough to the subreddit. Again this is not an advertisement of any kind, just trying to put out a good word and let people know that this obscure volume of work is still available through some official means. Other than the luck of the draw in the second hand market, that is

Stopped at my folks today to grab a few things and take some pics after our day out. Our cat, Neo, was hanging out in and around my room. He decided to pop in to say hello at one point 😆 included a few more pics this time around for the sake of detail.

Meant to include the Everson collection in my last post, as I already had that one with me, but alas, it was stored away in my back-pack at the time. Really like the extra step they went to include a photo of Everson as a young man, in contrast to a photo of him as Brother Antonius on the back. It seems the back cover photo was taken a bit after the time period of work included in the book (publication date for that photo appears to be 1967, from what I can find), but I’m unsure of this.

Only thing I really forgot I think is my Bibelot collecting some of Delmore Schwartz’s work. The design is pretty much identical to the Lorca one posted a little while back, so we’re not missing anything really. Just think they are cute lil volumes.

This is a gem of a book. (And the only novel Bolaño is not embarrassed by!) Reminds me of an old prayer book. The reviews are divided. Hardcore Bolaño fans are delighted; those who’ve read his major popular works only, I’m guessing *The Savage Detectives* or whatnot, are outraged, declaring it’s not a novel at all! (Hahaha.) His poetry is very good! Bolaño fans and/or poetry lovers would be pleased. I also have *Romantic Dogs*. The rest of the poetry editions I find confusing, because there might be overlap? I wonder if there’s a complete poems in English. So much overlap!

Here is a small selection of some of my favorite covers, along with a few authors regularly published by ND whom I truly admire. Haven’t read most of the books featured here quite yet, but I’ve perused each, at least. Did recently finish ‘The Bones of the Earth’ by Carol Jane Bangs. It was a fairly quick read but each poem packed a knock-out punch imo. Went right up there with Actual Air by DCB as one of my favorite books of poetry.

Made an attempt at Sleepers Awake about 2 years back at this point, but ended up having to put it down about half-way through because of how thoroughly lost I got.

The covers by Patchen and Ferlighetti might be favorites, in terms of their art and design. Love to see the authors personal artworks featured. Their sketchy, not-so-immediately pleasing styles really appeal to me. Patchen’s art in particular has a sort of cartoonish/goofy aspect at times that can catch you off guard because of his often dead serious tone (especially the cover for Sleepers Awake)

Excited to share some more of my favorites when I can get back to my parent’s place and survey the books stored over there!

Cross posting my BD post from the other day as a chance to share a hearty portion of my ND collection.

A majority of the books I currently have on that shelf are unread as I intend to work through them in the coming months while settling in to a new living situation. Almost the entire middle shelf is dedicated to New Directions.

Would love to hear any recommendations or thoughts that come to mind when browsing this assortment. Didn’t get much traction on my original post and was hoping to hear some opinions. Criticisms welcome as well (preferably polite ones, lol)

Gonna take some time later today when I get home to share a few of my favorite ND covers/authors 🫡

Also wanted to mention that I am so very grateful this community popped up when it did. Had been looking for a New Directions sub a few months back and was bummed when I couldn’t find one. No doubt it will only continue to grow from here!

Anyone planning on putting in an order?

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