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Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Burt’
The New York Times Magazine Profiles Stephen Burt September 17, 2012: Be sure to check out The New York Times Magazine's profile of Stephen Burt, which dwells on his role as "one of the most influential poetry critics of his generation." Burt is not the only young scholar whose reviews introduce new poetry to the masses, but he alone seems to be everywhere. He reviews for Web sites, magazines and major [...]
Object lessons of recent American poetry June 22, 2010: Stephen Burt posits a "turn among poets to reference, to concrete, real things" in the Boston Review: Almost all literary movements and moments expire in a crowd of imitators: what Hoagland called, disparagingly, “the skittery poem of our moment” may be about to slip into just that crowd. Yet Hoagland’s nominee for its replacement—what [...]
Trigger Cuts January 5, 2010: The on-going review-interviews taking place over at Lemon Hound have my attention at the moment (I’m one of the interviewees, an admission that I suppose qualifies as full disclosure here if you believe such a thing exists in the demi-world of warm soft fact), and I’m particularly interested in the question of what one might be looking for in [...]
