Tess Taylor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Happy Poetry Month Seamus Heaney Fans: this is the elementary school in his home town, Bellaghy, Northern Ireland. Hoping you find some good poems with your squat pens & power in snug (and sung) words-- https://t.co/KXzOvHLjuZ @HeaneyCentre @seamusheaneyest @HeaneyDaily https://t.co/MieJHS30eY

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Happy holiday week friends! Looking for something incredible to read? Here's from a current piece on THE TRANSLATIONS OF SEAMUS HEANEY! And here's to the joy of hard copy. https://t.co/PdvcvUjQbU

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#Poetry#Poems#Arts It's a great mail day when a beautiful book and handwritten letter arrive. Can't wait to dive into The Empty Form Goes All The Way To Heaven by Brian Teare. https://t.co/5ojOqyDbx9

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New York Friends-- I am reading with @_nick_flynn_ @arlozorof #SandraLim tomorrow, June 7, 2022 at 6pm! Slight shift to the nearby 5th Ave Terrace in front of the @nypl closer to 40th St. Come hear some poems-- I am excited to see you! Summer schedule!: https://t.co/KkNFBR8o7w https://t.co/bmGd5mtsv2

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Tom Sleigh has a new book out, The King's Touch. You can count Aurthur Sze and myself among Sleigh enthusiasts. #TomSleigh #AurthurSze @greywolfpress https://t.co/KIE4ecGJ3q

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Heaney’s voice is so unusually lucid that his translations are a triple gift. There’s the ravishing selection of poems, picked by Heaney, the shrewd curator…There is also the chance to see how translation and poetry reverberate across a career.

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Was off reading when this aired but now share a piece on @npratc about the joys of ... YES! reading! Including poems by Yusef Komunyakaa "Books Promiscuously Read: Reading As A Way Of Life" by Heather Cass White, and a new Poe biography-- https://t.co/lqhf4iCKxi

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"The voices of various characters lap over each other, as does time, moving from the era of childhood to old age." From @bonnietsui and @janeciab talking about Virginia Woolf's The Waves, in a piece on @lithub also discussing @crissyvanmeter @Shaptonia @neilhimself https://t.co/uXWs3XtLW9

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So amazing to get to mention these three beautiful books on NPR yesterday: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/16/1056263620/3-books-our-poetry-reviewer-tess-taylor-is-excited-about - Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton @NYRB_Imprints - The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim @wwnorton - Two Murals by Jesus Castillo @thesongcave https://t.co/cP0UCAv7EM

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I’m excited to be reading with Marcelo Castillo @marcelo_H_ and Dan Alter @arlozorof at Green Apple Books Friday 7pm. Details in tomorrow's post! Dan is launching his book, My Little Book of Exiles. I wanted to share the lovely companion film he made. https://t.co/MYSFLsfvjO