Byways

by James Laughlin and Peter Glassgold

Book Overview

The long-awaited memoirs of New Directions' founder. James Laughlin, the late founder and publisher of New Directions, was also a poet of elegance and distinction. At his death in 1997 at the age of eighty-three, he left unfinished his long autobiographical poem, Byways . It is no exaggeration to say that his publishing house, which he began in 1936 while still an undergraduate at Harvard, changed the way Americans read and write serious literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811216179
• ISBN13: 9780811216173
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"