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Stephen Burt

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Stephen Burt’s new book of criticism is The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence. A collection of his essays on contemporary poets, entitled Close Calls with Nonsense, will appear next year. He teaches at Harvard.

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