James Laughlin announces
NEW DIRECTIONS IX
The new annual, an exhibiti·on gallery of trends in advance guard
writing, will appear early in 1946. The supply is still limited by
paper shortage. Reserve your copy now ($3.50).
It
will feature:
PAUL ELUARD-Twenty-odd poems, written during the occupation, by
the poet who must now be considered with the greatest.
JAMES T. FARRELL-A long and searching analysis of the increasing
commercialization of American publishing. An absolute must for
every serious writer and reader.
HENRY MILLER-Rimbaud, a profound study of his life and work.
MEXICAN POETS-A little anthology, in translation.
BORIS PASTERNAK-The Mark of Apelles, a story.
LAUTREAMONT-A translation of his Preface, the only other work sur–
viving beside Maldoror.
PROSE by Paul Goodman, D. C. DeJong, Kenneth Patchen, Jack Jones,
W. C. Williams, Robert Lowry, John Berryman , and others.
POETRY by Tennessee Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, William Everson, Jean
Garrigue, Philip Lamantia and others.
OTHER NEW DIRECTIONS BOOKS
recently or soon to be published include: Stendhal by Harry Levin (75 cents); The
Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller ($3.50); Gerard Manley Hopkins by The
Kenyon Critics ($1.50); A Season in Hell by Rimbaud, new translation by Lousie Var–
ese, with French en face ($1.00); The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer by Kenneth
Patchen ($3.00; A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh ($1.00); Some Natural Things,
poems by James Loughlin ($2.00); The Berlin . Stories by Christopher Isherwood, two
complete novels-"Goodbye io Berlin" ond "The Lost of Mr. Norris" ($3 .50).
NEW DIRECTIONS, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City 18
