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We look like this after things fall apart;
The painting is the autopsy report
From an inquest where war took the part
Of coroner…

from ‘Modern Painters’

With CD from the Poetry Archive

We Look Like This anatomizes how history, violence, power, lust and mortality work on us. Burt's formal, muscular language evokes a world of war, want, cruelty and hope, as well as childhood among ‘tough Jews’ in Philadelphia, dominated by his father Joe, son of Ukrainian immigrants, butcher, boxer and, late in life, coastal fisherman. Joe's last world, Barnegat inlet and the sea off the New Jersey coast, are counterpoint to and salvation from hard streets for father and son.

Cover painting Frank Auerbach, Head of Gerda Boehm, 1978–9 (detail). Oil on board, 56.5 x 71.1 cm (22 1/4 x 28 in). Private collection. Copyright © Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art. Photograph courtesy of Yvonne Burt.

Who He Was 1–5
Death Mask
Slowly Sounds the Bell

Certain Windows

III

Circumcision
Indices
Inquisition
Rosebud
Ishmael

Accounting
Death Rattle
Blind Date
Texaco Saturday Afternoon Opera
Cabaletta
All the Dark Years
For John Crook
Homage for a Waterman
Facsimile Folio
John Winthrop’s Ghost

Pastiche
Poetry Reading
After Lunch
Little Black Dress
Kept
Pas de Deux
Winter Mornings
Yester-year
Revenant
Sie Kommt
The Faithful
End of the Affair

Decorating the Nursery
Wine Circle
Dodge-Ball
Blue Rinse Matrons
Momentum
Three Sonnets on the Coup de Grâce
Uphill to the Right
Manqué

VII

Compounds
Modern Painters
A Brewing Tale
The Lesson
Rigoletto
Summa
Motes
Un Coup de Dés
Identity
Beside a Cove
The Institute
Trade

Notes

Dan Burt was born in 1942 in South Philadelphia. He graduated from LaSalle College a Philadelphia working class college, read English at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1969. He was a lawyer, businessman, and Honorary Fellow of�St. John’s when he began to ... read more

Praise for Dan Burt 'I was deeply moved by Every Wrong Direction; it is filled with courage, honesty and grace - and quite a bit of sheer page turning thrill. Burt tells it all beautifully and poignantly and what lingers is an impression of exemplary intelligence and daring.'

Alain de Botton

'Dan Burt is a fine poet, and this memoir has all the sensitivity and vigilance you might expect from a writer with such a background. But his prose also has a robustness and documentary power that continually startles and engages.'

Sir Andrew Motion

'Admirably gutsy and hearty... revealing a gift for lively mimetic narrative'
Rory Waterman, TLS
'His language is terse to the point of brutality; the verbs ferocious... his core conviction, formed by the history of the twentieth century and a lifetime in a non-literary world, is of "the curtain falling on the Enlightenment".' Elaine Feinstein, PN Review 'the verse flexes muscle after muscle. Burt is excellent on place and occasion... The writing... can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. Certain Windows is a very good book...'
George Szirtes, Poetry Book Society 'Full of hard-won wisdom and beautiful lines, it's testament to the transforming power of poetry.'
Suzy Feay, the Independent

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We Look Like This Dan Burt 10% off eBook (EPUB) Categories: 21st Century, American, British Imprint: Lintott Press Publisher: Lintott Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2012) 9781847776334 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (Pub. Apr 2012) 9781847771322 Out of Stock To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions. Description Excerpt Author Contents Reviews We look like this after things fall apart; The painting is the autopsy report From an inquest where war took the part Of coroner… from ‘Modern Painters’ With CD from the Poetry Archive We Look Like This anatomizes how history, violence, power, lust and mortality work on us. Burt's formal, muscular language evokes a world of war, want, cruelty and hope, as well as childhood among ‘tough Jews’ in Philadelphia, dominated by his father Joe, son of Ukrainian immigrants, butcher, boxer and, late in life, coastal fisherman. Joe's last world, Barnegat inlet and the sea off the New Jersey coast, are counterpoint to and salvation from hard streets for father and son. Cover painting Frank Auerbach, Head of Gerda Boehm, 1978–9 (detail). Oil on board, 56.5 x 71.1 cm (22 1/4 x 28 in). Private collection. Copyright © Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art. Photograph courtesy of Yvonne Burt. I Who He Was 1–5 Death Mask Slowly Sounds the Bell II Certain Windows III Circumcision Indices Inquisition Rosebud Ishmael IV Accounting Death Rattle Blind Date Texaco Saturday Afternoon Opera Cabaletta All the Dark Years For John Crook Homage for a Waterman Facsimile Folio John Winthrop’s Ghost V Pastiche Poetry Reading After Lunch Little Black Dress Kept Pas de Deux Winter Mornings Yester-year Revenant Sie Kommt The Faithful End of the Affair VI Decorating the Nursery Wine Circle Dodge-Ball Blue Rinse Matrons Momentum Three Sonnets on the Coup de Grâce Uphill to the Right Manqué VII Compounds Modern Painters A Brewing Tale The Lesson Rigoletto Summa Motes Un Coup de Dés Identity Beside a Cove The Institute Trade Notes Dan Burt was born in 1942 in South Philadelphia. He graduated from LaSalle College a Philadelphia working class college, read English at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1969. He was a lawyer, businessman, and Honorary Fellow of�St. John’s when he began to ... read more Praise for Dan Burt 'I was deeply moved by Every Wrong Direction; it is filled with courage, honesty and grace - and quite a bit of sheer page turning thrill. Burt tells it all beautifully and poignantly and what lingers is an impression of exemplary intelligence and daring.' Alain de Botton 'Dan Burt is a fine poet, and this memoir has all the sensitivity and vigilance you might expect from a writer with such a background. But his prose also has a robustness and documentary power that continually startles and engages.' Sir Andrew Motion 'Admirably gutsy and hearty... revealing a gift for lively mimetic narrative' Rory Waterman, TLS 'His language is terse to the point of brutality; the verbs ferocious... his core conviction, formed by the history of the twentieth century and a lifetime in a non-literary world, is of "the curtain falling on the Enlightenment".' Elaine Feinstein, PN Review 'the verse flexes muscle after muscle. Burt is excellent on place and occasion... The writing... can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. Certain Windows is a very good book...' George Szirtes, Poetry Book Society 'Full of hard-won wisdom and beautiful lines, it's testament to the transforming power of poetry.' Suzy Feay, the Independent You might also be interested in: New Poetries V Edited by Michael Schmidt with Eleanor Crawforth We Look Like This Dan Burt	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog One Little Room: Peter McDonald read more Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati read more Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn read more Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry read more Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot: John Gallas read more Emotional Support Horse: Claudine Toutoungi read more
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