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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>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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		<title>nonstoppery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I haven&#8217;t stopped blogging, nor have I been thrown into a semi-permanent pit of despair by the paralysis in Washington the Democratic Party the structural impediments to government&#8211; to any government at all&#8211; created mostly by the filibuster. Perhaps we&#8217;re doomed. But literature proceeds; so does lit-blogging.
For example, I see that Sina Queyras, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/02/10/nonstoppery/</link>
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		<title>NBCC!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Close Calls, the book, is an NBCC Award finalist. I&#8217;m honored and taken aback to be in such good company.
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		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/01/25/nbcc/</link>
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		<title>sorry about massachusetts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to know what the @#$% happened in last night&#8217;s election? Here&#8217;s my take on the London Review of Books blog, where I hope I&#8217;ll be making less than regular but more than occasional appearances.
I&#8217;ve apparently been elected to the board of the National Book Critics Circle, where I&#8217;ll be joining such luminaries as Craig [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/01/20/sorry-about-massachusetts/</link>
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		<title>too meta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nathan&#8217;s favorite word this week is &#8220;meta.&#8221; A dollhouse inside a dollhouse is meta, but a food item does not become meta simply because it has its name (&#8220;bread&#8221;) on its package. Sophisticated stuff.
Also sophisticated: book blogger Neil Verma, who devoted a graf to my Boston Review piece last month, and Canadian culture bloggers The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/01/11/too-meta/</link>
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		<title>where to?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year to all, and to all a good preschool restarts on Monday morning night&#8230; 
Habitual book reviewers, such as myself, keep an eye on the ratio of stuff read to stuff written about; when the denominator approaches the numerator, as seemed likely to happen in 2009, then it&#8217;s time to take a step [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2010/01/03/where-to/</link>
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		<title>giant adamantium claws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an extremely good week around here for nonacademic nonfiction, by friends and by famous strangers:
Douglas&#8217;s five-minute explication of Kant with reference to Wolverine and Reed Richards, available here as embedded video, isn&#8217;t just a very funny, and very useful, explication of Kant: it&#8217;s also a good quick show of how to give an effective [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2009/12/26/giant-adamantium-claws/</link>
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		<title>10 you are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now it can be told: though my title won&#8217;t change till this summer, Harvard&#8217;s committees have met and decided to keep me around here. Suddenly I&#8217;m able to sleep well.
I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s a poem, but it&#8217;s fun, and it&#8217;s hard to forget: Silliman links to a video-poem composed entirely of homonyms. It&#8217;s probably time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2009/12/21/10-you-are/</link>
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		<title>pastoralisms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The onetime Pacific NW fanzine writer and record-label creator Nancy Ostrander has a great blog, with vast swaths of indiepop content: if the term indiepop means something to you, as it has long meant something to me, check it out.
I&#8217;m in the current PN Review, number 190, describing the supposed differences between British and American [...]]]></description>
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