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The Poem Is You

60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

Stephanie Burt

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$34.00 • £29.95 • €30.95

ISBN 9780674737877

Publication Date: 09/12/2016

432 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard University.

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