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New Directions

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New Directions is an American publishing house founded in 1936 by James Laughlin. Initially, Laughlin aimed to publish avant-garde writers who were overlooked at the time. The press became known for its distinctive paperback editions and for publishing influential works by both American and international authors.

New Directions published seminal works such as Ezra Pound's The Cantos and William Carlos Williams's Paterson. Over the years, the press also reissued out-of-print novels by established authors and released translations of foreign literature. In addition to prose, New Directions has been a significant publisher of poetry, featuring works by numerous poets throughout the 20th century and beyond.12

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