April 2019

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Volume 107, No. 2
April 2019
The Yale Review

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Table of Contents

Nonfiction

A portrait by Picasso of Gertrude Stein.
Essays

“Sitting at the Table” with Stein and Ashbery

“An Occasion” for Thin[g]king
Karin Roffman
April 1, 2019
Louie Bellson lighting Pearl Bailey's cigarette
Essays

Cultural Differences

How fictional portrayals of intermarriage haven't quite caught up
Jennifer Acker
April 1, 2019
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Essays

Music in the Second Person

Listening to Opus 110
Mark Mazullo
April 1, 2019
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Essays

Myth and Anarchy

Matthew Spellberg
April 1, 2019
A photograph of Ann Petry.
Essays

Nothing New Under the Sun

Ann Petry’s The Street and The Narrows
Emily Bernard
April 1, 2019
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Books

On "kaddish.com"

Fiction in review
David Galef
April 1, 2019
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Books

On Nine Recent Collections

Poetry in review
Stephanie Burt
April 1, 2019

Criticism

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Music

On Modern Composition

Music in review
Timothy Young
April 1, 2019
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Film

The Cinematic Afterlife of James Baldwin

Film in review
Ayten Tartici
April 1, 2019

Fiction

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Fiction

Stalking

John Sayles
April 1, 2019
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Fiction

The Silver Pearl

Joanna Scott
April 1, 2019
A painting of four Koreans by Shin Yun-Bok.
Fiction

The Woman Next Door

Ha Seong-Nan
and
Janet Hong
April 1, 2019

Poetry

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Poetry

“As Are Right Fit”

Benjamin S. Grossberg
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

An Old Theme

Derek Mahon
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Baggy-arsed country

Jacques Moulin
and
David Ball
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Bulgur

Peter Balakian
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Cassandra in San Francisco

Henry Sloss
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Chaos Theory

Barry Goldensohn
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Chorus from "The Birds"

Derek Mahon
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

D. and Dog

Lynne Potts
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Dear Millennium, of Edible Blossoms and the Unborn

Karen An-hwei Lee
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Dissonance

Barry Goldensohn
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Elegy in October

Frannie Lindsay
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Ernest Lawrence

John Canaday
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Five Goldfinches

Karl Kirchwey
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

How Much I Love You

Peter Balakian
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

I Was Waiting for You Outside the Post Office

Jessica Greenbaum
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Midwinter Letter

Geoffrey Brock
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Revenge

Nathaniel Hutner
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Rough Plaster

Bernard O’Donoghue
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Some Letters to Cabeza de Vaca, Shipwrecked on the Texas Shore, 1528

Kevin Honold
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Something Forced

Benjamin S. Grossberg
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

Storm Warning

Randy Blasing
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

The Duchess of Malfi

Barry Goldensohn
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

The Potato Plants

Jodie Hollander
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

The Tablecloth

Giovanni Pascoli
and
Geoffrey Brock
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

The Way I Like Best

James Longenbach
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

The Wedgewood, the Watches

Benjamin S. Grossberg
April 1, 2019
Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons, ca. A.D. 260–270. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Poetry

Three Sarcophagi

Karl Kirchwey
April 1, 2019
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Poetry

To My Daughter

Peter Cooley
April 1, 2019

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