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As in 2013's Belmont, Burt mines a nearly limitless store of empathy, lending voices to living things and inanimate objects alike, from anxious kites to wrestling ferrets ("Our arguments/ are circular:/ we love to writhe,/ to form a wreath/ or flare and tie/ ourselves in knots"). More than exhibitions of creative ventriloquism, these poems aspire to be lessons toward the realization of personal identity: "The ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More