**Stephanie Burt *is a poet and critic and professor of English at Harvard University. Her books include Don't Read Poetry , Advice from the Lights: Poems, and the essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has appeared in s...

**Stephanie Burt *is a poet and critic and professor of English at Harvard University. Her books include Don't Read Poetry , Advice from the Lights: Poems, and the essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has appeared in such publications as the London Review of Books and the New York Times Book Review. She serves as poetry coeditor for the Nation. Mark Payneis professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction *, The Animal Part, and Hontology.