Belmont: Poems

"Stephen Burt is the leading poetry critic of his generation, one of contemporary poetry’s most well-known advocates, but he is also a formidable poet himself. In this, his third and best book, he is moved to song by the challenges, whimsies and ecstasies of fatherhood and suburban life. These poems are all kinds of tender; they’re funny, too. Most of all, they’re made wise by a father’s careful attention to all his children know."