James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 – November 12, 1997) was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing. Read full biography of James Laughlin →
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good... →
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was... →
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do... →
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they... →
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making... →
There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very... →
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and... →
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what... →
James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 – November 12, 1997) was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing.