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The Poet as a Young Critic

In Thom Gunn’s early work for The Yale Review, he valued style above all else
Langdon Hammer

Gods

Vladimir Nabokov
translated by Dmitri Nabokov

The Mirror

Haruki Murakami
translated by Philip Gabriel

"A magazine is not a static thing or the creation of a single mind: it’s a site of the social and communal practice of thought."

Meghan O'Rourke Resurfacing Gems from The Yale Review's Archives

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John Ashbery, Palette, collage, 2011. © Estate of John Ashbery, courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.

Strangers May Kiss

John Ashbery
October 1, 1968

My Cousin in April

Louise Glück
June 1, 1967

Four Summers

Joyce Carol Oates
March 1, 1967

Bounty

Cormac McCarthy
March 1, 1965

New Books in Review

Poems and Books of Poems
Thom Gunn
October 1, 1963

The Public Garden

Robert Lowell
October 1, 1962

Outside Faction

Thom Gunn
June 1, 1961