Stephanie Burt (also elsewhere) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Stephanie Burt is a literary critic and poet. Prof English @Harvard Bks @graywolfpress @Harvard_Press @PrincetonUP @ColumbiaUP Partner @jessiebennett Co-host @teamupmoves Illyana's backpack. She/her.
The World We Make
N. K. JemisinStephanie Burt (also elsewhere)So what saves The World We Make from feeling like a product of the tourist board? For one thing, it’s so much fun: the plot moves fast. For another, it’s 2022: everything the city means for Jemisin—immigration, Blackness, brownness...—really does need clear defense.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tenderness
Derrick AustinStephanie Burt (also elsewhere)Just realized (should have realized last year) that if you like Derrick Austin's Tenderness @boaeditions you'll like Robert Lowell's Day by Day. & very much vice versa. (And yes, I do.)
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inseminating the Elephant
Lucia PerilloStephanie Burt (also elsewhere)A good time for someone to find and reread Lucia Perillo's terrific long poem "Inseminator Man" (I think that's the title) @CopperCanyonPrs (not to be confused with "Inseminating the Elephant": this earlier poem's about cows) https://t.co/A5TcfWWKo2
Paperback, 2011
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poetry and the Age: Expanded Edition
Randall JarrellStephanie Burt (also elsewhere)Anybody want a first edition of Randall Jarrell's Letters? DM if so. I'm trying to clean house, have the second expanded edition, and want the elegant first one to find a good home. Maybe @richflynn17 knows someone...
Paperback, 2001
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Seraphina
Rachel HartmanStephanie Burt (also elsewhere)@lizbethanne Try the Rachel Hartman Seraphina series! You get a complete two book narrative and then two more that leave the character ready for further adventures w no cliffhangers. Also they are perfect
Paperback, 2014
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Day by Day
Robert LowellStephanie Burt (also elsewhere)Just realized (should have realized last year) that if you like Derrick Austin's Tenderness @boaeditions you'll like Robert Lowell's Day by Day. & very much vice versa. (And yes, I do.)
Paperback, 1978
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Novels
George EliotStephanie Burt (also elsewhere)@emilywritesgood @dogunderwater Exception: the novels of George Eliot. Rule holds for all other art
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Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle)
Walt WhitmanStephanie Burt (also elsewhere)This is more right than wrong but also someone call Walt Whitman please (Calamus = 1860) https://t.co/5By8v7FrWN
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Mogg Megone: A Poem.
John Greenleaf WhittierStephanie Burt (also elsewhere)not defending the queen or the monarchy but "telling the bees" when someone has died is a common folkloric thing. here's john greenleaf whittier, c19 American poet and no fan of monarchs, getting a poem out of it @PoetryFound https://t.co/Qa8i6DqjW6
Paperback, 2012
$17.75$8.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shadow Scale
Rachel HartmanStephanie Burt (also elsewhere)Retweeting this because it's from a reader I trust. I give absolutely everyone Seraphina/ Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman but that's more because I think it's about me, personally. #SFF #overidentification https://t.co/4YHpZerAnV
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