Belmont Books is pleased to host STEPH BURT, reading from her newest collection Advice from the Lights.
Stephen Burt is a literary critic, poet, and professor at Harvard University. The New York Times has called her “one of the most influential poetry critics of [her] generation.”
“Poet and critic Burt diagnoses feelings of alienation and its possible antidotes in this touching portrait series of self and family.” – Publishers Weekly
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.