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Stephen Burt is a literary critic who teaches at Harvard University. He received tenure there in 2010. He is best known for coining the term "elliptical poetry" in a 1998 essay in Boston Review magazine. In 2009, a subsequent essay proposed "The New Thing" as the contemporary movement in American poetry.

He has also written for The New York Times Book Review, Poetry Review, The Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and the Yale Review. His book Randall Jarrell and His Age won the Warren-Brooks Award in 2002.

He earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Yale in 2000 before joining the faculty at Macalester College, his first academic post.

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Total Books: 21
Advice from the Lights Poems
2017 - Advice From the Lights Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781555977894
ISBN-10: 1555977898
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Poems for Political Disaster
2017 - Poems for Political Disaster [Chapbook] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781946511010
ISBN-10: 1946511013
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Politics & Social Sciences
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The Poem Is You Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them
From There Some Thoughts on Poetry  Place
2016 - From There Some Thoughts on Poetry Place (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781553804611
ISBN-10: 1553804619
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Belmont Poems
2013 - Belmont Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781555976446
ISBN-10: 1555976441
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Weather Observer's Handbook
2012 - The Weather Observer's Handbook (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781107662285
ISBN-10: 1107662281
Genres: Reference, Science & Math
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The Art of the Sonnet
2011 - The Art of the Sonnet (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780674061804
ISBN-10: 0674061802
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Something Understood Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler
2009 - Something Understood Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780813927848
ISBN-10: 0813927846
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Close Calls with Nonsense Reading New Poetry
2009 - Close Calls with Nonsense Reading New Poetry (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781555975210
ISBN-10: 1555975216
Genres: History, Literature & Fiction
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The Forms of Youth TwentiethCentury Poetry and Adolescence
2007 - The Forms of Youth Twentiethcentury Poetry and Adolescence (Hardcover)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780231141420
ISBN-10: 0231141424
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Shot Clocks Poems for the WNBA
2006 - Shot Clocks Poems for the Wnba (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780967803180
ISBN-10: 0967803187
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Parallel Play
2006 - Parallel Play (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781555974374
ISBN-10: 1555974376
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Randall Jarrell and His Age
2005 - Randall Jarrell and His Age (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780231125956
ISBN-10: 023112595X
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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Popular Music
1999 - Popular Music (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780870815553
ISBN-10: 0870815555
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Humor & Entertainment
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Rvs and Vans
Rvs and Vans [Cruisin'] (Hardcover)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781560650713
ISBN-10: 1560650710
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