Stated First Edition. Clean & tight copy, unread in Near Fine condition. "Founder of New Directions, as well as an essayist and poet, Laughlin here offers intimate reminiscences of modern experimenters. A visit to a trappist monastery in Kentucky to see 'a bubbling extrovert' and jazz enthusiast sets the tone for a long piece on Thomas Merton and his poetry in the opening chapter. Some of Gertrude Stein's foibles are seen up close from the young Laughlin's vantage point as personal secretary. Other pieces on William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Patchen, Pound & Michaux mix with the best of Laughlin's literary memoirs, painting a fascinating portrait of Laughlin and his contemporaries." A nice copy w/a slightly worn dust jacket in archival mylar cover, all presentably pristine & giftable.

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Title: Random Essays: Recollections of a Publisher
Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0918825865
ISBN 13: 9780918825865
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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A selection of rich and varied essays which together form a personal and literary autobiography of writer and publisher James Laughlin. Sunning on spine. Edges of jacket and book worn. Closed tear on upper right corner of jacket. Corners bumped. xiv, 272 pages. cloth over paper-covered boards, dust jacket, gilt stamp on spine. 8vo..

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As a poet, editor, and founding publisher of the avant-garde New Directions, Laughlin counted among his friends most of the major figures in American Modernism. His mentors included Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Kenneth Rexroth, and he was himself the mentor of Thomas Merton, Kenneth Patchen, William Carlos Williams, and many others. This book collects an assortment of mostly recent talks, reviews, and prefaces, providing a combination of literary autobiography and critical evaluations of the leading figures in modern American literature. While some of his critical insights are uneven or dated, his recollections, especially of Pound and Stein, are always interesting and insightful.
- T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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