Research Catalog

Title

Spearhead; 10 years' experimental writing in America.

Publication

[New York, 1947]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

604 p. illus.; 24 cm.

Subject

• American literature > 20th century

Genre/Form

Dust jackets (Binding). – New York (State) – United States – 20th century.

Note

• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Carruth, H. New Directions reader
• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• Copy in Berg Coll 22-2115 bound in publishers' beige cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig.

Contents

The toy balloon / Robert Lowry -- Five poems / Muriel Rukeyser -- The labyrinth / Anais Nin -- Two poems / Oscar Williams -- Aunt Julia's Caesar / Maud Hutchins -- At the foot of the page / Lionel Abel -- The phoenix & the tortoise / Kenneth Rexroth -- The Mohammedans / H.J. Kaplan -- Xmas gift / Charles Henri Ford -- The facts of life ; A ceremonial ; The commodity embodied in bread / Paul Goodman -- The Greenberg manuscripts / Samuel Greenberg -- The Prairie Avenue piano recital ; The unmusical consequences of the Italian orgeltochter / Montagu O'Reilly -- Four poems / Marianne Moore -- The inhabitants / Wright Morris -- Azeff Wischmeier, the Bolshevik bureaucrat / Georg Mann -- Five poems / Randall Jarrell -- The cosmodemonic rigolade / Henry Miller -- Ten poems / Jose Garcia Villa -- The mugging / Jack Jones -- 27 wagons full of cotton / Tennessee Williams -- A dead one / David Kerner -- Five poems / John Wheelwright -- The pool game / William Saroyan -- Six poems ; The House of the Frowning Heart / Kenneth Patchen -- Flight / Selden Rodman -- Hurry, hurry! / Eleanor Clark -- Three poems / Kay Boyle -- Statement of Ashby Wyndham / Robert Penn Warren -- Seven poems / E.E. Cummings -- The imaginary Jew / John Berryman -- Four cantos / Ezra Pound -- Daniel Webster ; A water-fall and a piano / Gertrude Stein -- Watchman, what of the night? / Djuna Barnes -- A selection from Let us now praise famous men / James Agee & Walker Evans -- From Paterson ; Ten little poems ; Night ; Perpetuum mobile, the city / William Carlos Williams -- Seven poems / Josephine Miles -- Every man his own private detective ; Freud of Assisi / Parker Tyler -- Twelve poems / James Laughlin -- Vertigralist pamphlet / Eugene Jolas -- Four poems / Karl Shapiro -- In dreams begin responsibilities ; A selection from Genesis ; Two lyrics / Delmore Schwartz.

Call Number

NBF (Spearhead)

LCCN

47011637

OCLC

1576204

Title

Spearhead; 10 years' experimental writing in America.

Imprint

[New York, 1947]

Indexed In:

Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 220

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 19

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2115 bound in publishers' beige cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2115 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

NBF (Spearhead)

Berg Coll 22-2115