New Directions 42

285 USD

Date

1981

Category

Poetry

Description

"An Anthology: Edited by James Laughlin with Peter Glassgold & Frederick R. Martin ND42 contains impressionistic prose by Yves Bonnofoy (France), stories by Russell Haley (New Zealand), Uchida Hyakken (Japan), Isabella Wai (Canada), as well as poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Octavio Paz, Charles Tomlinson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Paul West, and Harriet Zinnes among others.

Excerpt

A hundred years ago this land was marshland. It’s no wonder, then, that all the promontories collapse in the mud, that all roads become impassable, and that I can’t even make my way to my own kitchen where I had hoped to conduct experiments (culinary) on your fist. I mean, fish. (It has crawled away gasping. I heard it in the middle of the night.) I will call you up. (Assuming, that is, that I can make it to the phone.) I want to tell you something that’s not a defense or a pretense or an explanation.