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	<title>Close Calls With Nonsense</title>
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	<description>A poetry blog by Stephen Burt</description>
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		<title>far behind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cooper is wonderful. School is over. The WNBA season has begun. It&#8217;s a good time for short sentences and long evenings at or near the backyard grill. Also a good time to lowball the value of poetry, as I did in a piece picked up by the Boston Globe&#8230;
When I&#8217;m feeling unusually busy at home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/05/17/far-behind/</link>
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		<title>and far less consequentially</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in a new series of essays on neglected poems, sponsored by Poetry Daily, emailed to their donors and subscribers, and unavailable so far on the internets generally, except in a version pirated by a bot-run website. (I&#8217;m writing on S. M. B. Piatt.) You will be able to read the whole series later this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/04/21/and-far-less-consequentially/</link>
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		<title>hi, cooper!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Close Calls is pleased to announce the arrival of someone else closer to us than any mere literary work could ever be: Jessie and I now have our second child, Cooper Robert Bennett Burt, born safely in Boston on Tuesday April 13, and later delivered safely to our home. He&#8217;s got dark eyes, fine blond [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/04/21/hi-cooper/</link>
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		<title>me too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost forgot: there&#8217;s an excerpt from The Art of the Sonnet up now at the Poetry Foundation site, and I have two poems in the current London Review of Books.
I won&#8217;t attend the AWP conference in Denver, due to imminent baby! though I am still on the program: if you go, you can hear Jeff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/04/05/me-too/</link>
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		<title>zeroes mean so much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that if you read only poetry and poetry criticism for more than a month at a time your eyelids will fall off? Pretty scary. I&#8217;ve come close, but I&#8217;m happy to say that I&#8217;ve avoided that fate, and not (or not only) by reading about the women&#8217;s Final Four: also just finished [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/04/05/zeroes-mean-so-much/</link>
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		<title>mightier than&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m conducting a discussion of contemporary poetry with Chris Lydon for PEN-New England at Upstairs on the Square, the restaurant, tomorrow (Thursday, April 1) at 5:30pm: apparently there may be free wine. No foolin&#8217;.
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		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/03/31/mightier-than/</link>
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		<title>cusps in greensboro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via David Blair, I see the magazine storySouth has a new online format, in which you can find a poem I like very much by Christopher Ankney, a fun harsh political poem by David himself (look for the beefsteak tomato), and a very memorable essay by Lee Zacharias, who has just retired after three decades [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/03/18/cusps-in-greensboro/</link>
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		<title>carr! beasley! lerner! sonnets! yikes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few months with maybe not so many exciting new poetry books I&#8217;ve suddenly got a stack I&#8217;m (at the least) happy to spend more time looking over: from the &#8220;left,&#8221; Ben Lerner&#8217;s Mean Free Path, a big sequence&#8211; maybe the best of a few big sequences&#8211; whose collage and recombinant techniques let him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/03/18/carr-beasley-lerner-sonnets-yikes/</link>
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		<title>ignatz!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monica Youn&#8217;s amazing book of poems about Krazy Kat has officially been published, and it&#8217;s the pick of the day on Poetry Daily!
Marjorie Perloff still likes the poetry of Rae Armantrout. (Me too.)
I&#8217;ll be onstage briefly at the marathon reading next Wednesday, March 10, at the New School, where everybody nominated for a National Book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/03/02/ignatz/</link>
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		<title>te whiore o te kuri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Paul Millar&#8217;s selection from the poems of the great New Zealand poet- polemicist-visionary James K. Baxter has now been published in Britain. I can&#8217;t really praise him enough, though I&#8217;ve tried. If you care about modern poetry in English beyond the bounds of the United States, and you don&#8217;t own a Selected Baxter, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/02/16/te-whiore-o-te-kuri/</link>
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