New Directions 42
Laughlin, James285 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.
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