Taylor Swift steht unangefochten an der Weltspitze der Popmusik. An ihr kommt niemand vorbei. In diesem Buch eröffnet Stephanie Burt - Anglistik-Professorin und bekennender Swiftie - einen völlig neuen Blick auf Taylors Lyrics und Leben. Von ihren Anfängen im Country bis zur epochalen Eras Tour, von den MTV Video Music Awards 2009 bis zu Travis Kelce: Die Autorin beleuchtet dieses einzigartige Künstlerinnenleben durch die Brille der Anglistin und zeigt, wie vielschichtig und anspielungsrei...

Taylor Swift è un'icona globale, un'artista dal successo e dalla produttività impressionanti, ma i record di vendite, i numeri così ben conosciuti della sua fama, lasciano fuori l'aspetto più importante: quanto, semplicemente, contino nella vita delle persone le sue canzoni. Come Swift ci ha affascinato e conquistato, schiudendoci nuovi modi per intendere non solo la sua esperienza, ma anche la nostra. Stephanie Burt, poeta, critica letteraria e professoressa universitaria, in questo libro...

Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty—and sheer variety—leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline-making urgency of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen to the stark pathos of Louise Glück, the limitless...

Winner of the 2025 New England Book Award for PoetryA major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more.A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt, Super Gay Poems brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans ...

**A preeminent Harvard professor and poetry expert explains the artistry—and the celebrity—of Taylor Swift“This is an outstanding look at one of the world’s most beloved entertainers.”―Kirkus (starred)**Taylor Swift has become a peerless superstar, ceaselessly productive and internationally beloved. From her teen country debut to her Eras tour and beyond, Swift’s career and her creations have captivated and bewitched us, opening up new ways to see both her life and...

This spirited collection brings you 100 exclusive recipes from South Carolina's most renowned bars.Explore South Carolina's rich history, charming cities, and lush landscapes through its unique cocktail culture. With over 100 recipes and numerous bartender profiles, South Carolina Cocktails allows you to experience the state's spirited lifestyle whether you're a resident mixing drinks for friends or a visitor looking to bring a piece of your travels back h...

“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetryIn Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another—and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how...

**A preeminent Harvard professor and poetry expert explains the artistry—and the celebrity—of Taylor Swift“This is an outstanding look at one of the world’s most beloved entertainers.”―Kirkus (starred)**Taylor Swift has become a peerless superstar, ceaselessly productive and internationally beloved. From her teen country debut to her Eras tour and beyond, Swift’s career and her creations have captivated and bewitched us, opening up new ways to see both her life and...

Effusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, “perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say” (Boston Review)Stephanie Burt’s poems in We Are Mermaids are never just one thing. Instead, they revel in their multiplicity, their interconnectedness, their secret powers to become much more than they at first seem. In these poems, punctuation marks make arguments for their utility and their rights to exist. Frozen isn’t simply another Disney anim...

“The brightest and most inviting of Burt’s collections for readers of any, all, and no genders.”—Boston ReviewAdvice from the Lights is a brilliant and candid exploration of gender and identity and a series of looks at a formative past. It’s part nostalgia, part confusion, and part an ongoing wondering: How do any of us achieve adulthood? And why would we want to, if we had the choice? This collection is woven from and interrupted by extraordinary...

Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms. This new idea of adolescence became the driving force behind some of the modern era's most original poetry.Stephen Burt demonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and ...

Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation. He was also a lyric poet, comic novelist, translator, children's book author, and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Hannah Arendt, and many other important writers of his time. Jarrell won the 1960 National Book Award for poetry and served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. Amid the resurgence of interest in Randall Jarrell, Stephen Burt offers this brilliant analysis of the p...