Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University, is author of several books, most recently the poetry collection Belmont.
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Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University, is author of several books, most recently the poetry collection Belmont.
my anonymous maker or makers were not
out to fashion amphorae, or ways to store oil, so much
as shaping vessels for the awkward soul.
No poet captures the feeling of political failure—of having lost an unfair fight—like W. B. Yeats.
Poetry is offering new candor about the ways men care for their children.
Few texts have worked as hard as Craig Dworkin’s to remind us that what we make of them depends on prior frames, on previous texts.
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