New Directions paperbook

Presents 100 Japanese poems drawn chiefly from the traditional "Manyoshu, " "Kokinshu, " and "Hyakunin Isshu" collections as well as haiku and other forms.

A collection of Denise Levertov's first published works, including a group of previously uncollected poems.

Contains a collection of poems by exiled Iraqi writer, Dunya Mikhail, exploring the realities of oppression and liberation through the literary tradition of Mesopotamian mythology and Western modernism.

Frankie Addams, a motherless twelve-year-old raised by her father and the family's African-American cook, struggles with conflicting feelings about her brother's upcoming wedding.

Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.

Presents the script of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a wealthy Southern family and the secrets that are revealed when they all gather to celebrate Big Daddy's birthday.

A two-act play which Tennessee Williams called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," in which Cornelius McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, is searching for a large amount of moonshine money that his wife Bella has hidden, on the stormy Christmas night they returned from their eldest son's funeral.