“I want the new, or the old made new, and if I can’t have the new I want sense, and I am aware, as a reader and as a critic and as a writer, of my own limited time.”
The esteemed poetry critic Stephen Burt discusses the art of the review and the responsibilities of the reviewer.
If you haven’t read Burt’s fine book, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, you have missed watching a major literary intelligence in operation. Highly recommended.
