The Yale Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Fire Eater: Poems Volume 10
Jose Hernandez DiazPoetry by Jessica Laser, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Omotara James, and others make our list of most-read poems of 2022. Revisit their work here: https://t.co/lcyhF3zf3v
Paperback, 2020
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bambi
Felix SaltenBAMBI is often dismissed as a parable. But Felix Salten’s classic tale has more to offer, writes Charlie Tyson. https://t.co/HR5Yx9ZSL8
Paperback, 2024
$8.99Member price:$8.09 + Free shipping10% off
A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill
James MerrillHappy Birthday to James Merrill, born #OTD in 1926. In 2021 TYR hosted a roundtable for the publication of A WHOLE WORLD: LETTERS FROM JAMES MERRILL, with Stephen Yenser, @dchiasso, Roger Reeves, Maureen N. McLane, and others. Revisit the recap here: https://t.co/R8KZkNMtpV
Hardcover, 2021
$45.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Letters: With Biographical Notes by his Daughter, Caroline Emelia Stephen
Caroline Emelia StephenHappy Birthday to James Merrill, born #OTD in 1926. In 2021 TYR hosted a roundtable for the publication of A WHOLE WORLD: LETTERS FROM JAMES MERRILL, with Stephen Yenser, @dchiasso, Roger Reeves, Maureen N. McLane, and others. Revisit the recap here: https://t.co/R8KZkNMtpV
Hardcover, 2016
$34.95Member price:$31.45 + Free shipping10% off
Either/Or
Elif BatumanSelin is back! Happy pub day to @BananaKarenina's EITHER/OR, out today from @penguinpress. 🤓 Read this conversation between Elif Batuman and Ama Codjoe on a failed book club: https://t.co/ELf101rI4l
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Port
Victor Guembes"The vast expanse of the sky, the mobile architecture of the clouds, the changing colors of the sea, the sparkles of the lighthouses—" Read Richard Sieburth's translation of "The Port" by Charles Baudelaire, our Poem of the Week: https://t.co/BBWNaalpzu
Paperback, 2009
$16.25Member price:$15.44 + Free shipping5% off
The Romantics
Pankaj Mishra“Benares was like no place I had known or read about, and it seemed to offer exactly what I wanted: a chance to live alone in a place that had no memories and associations for me.” Pankaj Mishra remembers the city that inspired his novel THE ROMANTICS: https://t.co/bNobA3x4c0
Paperback, 2001
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Short Talks: Brick Books Classics 1
Anne Carson"My mother forbad us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation." — Anne Carson "Short Talks," TYR Summer 1991 https://t.co/pZT54TEivN
Paperback, 2015
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Yale Review
George Park FisherIn October 2003, five never-before-published poems by the great modernist Marianne Moore appeared in The Yale Review. It turns out one of those poems wasn't by Moore. https://t.co/69YTrzPOra
Paperback, 2019
$32.95Member price:$29.66 + Free shipping10% off
Common Life
Stéphane BouquetHappy pub day to Stéphane Bouquet! COMMON LIFE, translated by Lindsay Turner, is out today from @nightboatbooks! Read “Without” from the new book on TYR: https://t.co/Agt9wswZKq
Paperback, 2023
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book