Here follows the highs and lows of a relationship between two extraordinary personalities. Delmore Schwartz was the golden boy of the American literary scene until his untimeley death in 1966, alone and destitute. James Laughlin was the founder of New Directions, publisher and editor of the Modernists. This collection chronicles a correspondence that began with Schwartz's first unsolicited submission to Laughlin in 1937 and continued throughout the friendship that lasted until the poet's death. The relationship that developed between them was both literary, steeped in their own work and the work of their contemporaries, and personal: gifted storytellers, they delighted each other with factual and fictional observations. The two remained friends and colleagues until the mental illness that eventually claimed him, began to destroy Schwartz's ability to trust even those closest to him.

Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

James Laughlin

Delmore Schwartz

Biographies & Memoirs

W.W.Norton&Company

Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters is a modernist source book - essential reading for anyone interested in tracing the real development of twentieth-century literature. Even before establishing "New Directions", James Laughlin had met and studied with Ezra Pound. These selected letters capture the spirit of their growing relationship from pupil and teacher to publisher and author. Pound's correspondence summons up the inner man and the literary figure. Literature, music, friends and politics fill his pages.

Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

Ezra, Pound

James Laughlin has been called the American Catullus. Like that most Greek of ancient Latin poets, he elevates his everyday subjects with wit and clarity of language. Love and hate, death and aging, politics, literature, travel, the horrors of war - Laughlin's muse speaks of all these things with a fresh directness that makes his poems both timeless and contemporary. The founder of New Directions, Laughlin's efforts as publisher and poet have been to prolong and extend the old poetic traditions. Poetry for him is, in Gertrude Stein's phrase, a "continuous present" in all times and cultures. Laughlin developed his distinctive tight metrics with the advice of William Carlos Williams. A longer, comical line is found in the recent poems of Laughlin's doppelganger, Hiram Handspring. The Man in the Wall follows Laughlin's recent Collected Poems (Moyer Bell Limited).

The Man in the Wall: Poems by James Laughlin

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

New Directions

Contiene alcune poesie inedite negli Stati Uniti

In Another Country: Selected Poems 1935-1975

City Lights Books

Book by Andrei Codrescu, D.H. Lawrence, James Laughlin, Allen Ginsberg, Barry Gifford, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ezra Pound

Ends and Beginnings (City Lights Review, No. 6)

Allen GINSBERG

Barry Gifford

Andrei Codrescu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

D.H.Lawrence

United States

CITY LIGHTS

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