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Because I Was Flesh
Few books in the history of New Directions have received such praise as came to Edward Dahlberg’s autobiography, Because I Was Flesh, which is now on our paperback list. Alfred Kazin wrote: “A work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence and power, it redeems with one mighty creative act the suffering of a lifetime. It is one of the few important American books published in our day.” And Allen Tate spoke of “the hair-raising honesty, the profound self-knowledge, and the formal elegance of the style,...a combination that has not previously appeared in an autobiography by an American.” Sir Herbert Read called the book, “A great achievement. A masterpiece. The magnificent portrait of th...
The Wages of Expectation
The flamboyant and irascible Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) wrote twenty books including, most notably, Because I Was Flesh, his autobiographical masterpiece. Dahlberg's literary career spanned five decades and brought him into contact (and conflict) with many of the luminaries of his time, from D.H. Lawrence and Ford Madox Ford to Charles Olson and Allen Ginsberg. Charles DeFanti was a close friend of Edward Dahlberg for the last four years of Dahlberg's life, conducted hundreds of interviews for this book (which was originally published in 1978), and has written an Afterword for this edition.
Edward Dahlberg Papers
Two interesting additions to the collection are a series of 13 autograph letters (1921-1929) from D.H. Lawrence to Dahlberg in reference to Dahlberg's novel Bottom Dogs; and a series of 24 typescript letter from Dahlberg to novelist/poet Fanny Howe during the years 1964-1967.
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Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg
This book focuses on the human and artistic dimensions of the contacts between Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg, two of the most interesting figures of modern American letters.
