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...Burt, whose course offerings for the spring semester include an English seminar on 21st century American poetry, said that his interest in contemporary poetry is two-fold...
...like trying to convince people that my favorite poets are worthy of sustained attention,” Burt added...
...While Burt said he admires traditional poets, such as Keats, who have adorned the syllabi of English classes for years, he noted a distinction between writing about classic and contemporary poetry...
...Keats doesn’t need me to tell you that Keats is worth reading,” Burt said. “Writing about some of the living poets I’ve written about might help the poetry of the present survive into the realm of the future...
Although several of the pieces included in “Close Calls with Nonsense” had previously appeared in various publications such as The London Review of Books, Burt said that he began to speak with publishers about compiling them into a book...