Belmont: Poems
“Burt, the finest critic of his generation, has struck out on his own. It is time now to celebrate Burt’s other real work.”
—Lucie Brock-Broido
The Art of the Sonnet
Stephen Burt and David Mikics
“Burt and Mikics have gathered together and composed a marvelous book. Both of them give us profound commentaries on particular sonnets and on the genre. I know of no other recent book that so steadily illuminates the riches it invokes.”
—Harold Bloom
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
“In clear, conversational prose, Stephen Burt unties knotty contemporary poetry in Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, suggesting ways to read poems about ‘what matters in life.’ Burt makes you want to run out to a bookstore to get in on the excitement he conveys throughout this book.”
—Entertainment Weekly
Parallel Play
“Engaging, artful…Burt’s wit and powers of invention are on full display.”
—The Washington Post Book World
Randall Jarrell and His Age
“Stephen Burt does Randall Jarrell the finest kind of critical justice…. There is sympathy here, and imagination, and just the right degree of intellectual detachment.”
—Louis Menand
Popular Music
“In poems that are personal in their distrust of constructions of gendered self, dazzling in their speed of association, and masterful in their orchestration of an insistently ebullient music, Stephen Burt pulls the cork from a new century. Burt’s spicy, heuristic mix of high-literary and sub-pop culture requires a new reader. My dear, it is you. “
—Forrest Gander, author of Science & Steepleflower
Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden
Edited by Stephen Burt and Hannah Brooks-Motl