{"product_id":"new-directions-22","title":"New Directions 22","description":"The contents, lively and varied as always, of this year's New Directions Annual, the twenty-second in the series which began in 1936, range from the topical, in an impressive new poem by Ferlinghetti on \u003cem\u003eThe Enigma of Ho Chi Minh's Funeral\u003c\/em\u003e, to one of the important source texts of the modern literary movement, a translation by David Harris of Gottfried Benn's \"play of ideas,\" \u003cem\u003eThe Voice behind the Curtain\u003c\/em\u003e. Once again, the Annual is international: Stephen Stepanchev has translated a group of poems by the Yugoslavian poet Vasko Popa; Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura present the Japanese poet Ryuichi Tamura; Dennis Silk (Israel) blends parody and fantasy in the prose \"journey,\" Montefiore; there is a scene from the play Sunday They'll Make Me a Saint by the Greek-American writer Demetrius Toteras; and from Britain we have Stuart Montgomery's verse sequence, Circe, a section of photographs of the concrete poetry of Ian Hamilton Finlay (Scotland) and a group of drawings by the poet Charles Tomlinson. Three of the young American poets in ND22 are active in the Black movement: Ed Roberson, Quincy Troupe and Al Young. Richard Meyers is a promising discovery, and we welcome Robert Lowry again with a fine poem. Of exceptional interest this year are the stories of Paul Breslow, Carol Emshwiller, Paul Friedman, James B. Hall and Mark Jay Mirsky.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833669988557,"sku":"9780811203333","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_aeb0bf10-49c1-4071-95c9-b63705f152cf.jpg?v=1790892762","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/new-directions-22","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}