In Belmont, poet Stephen Burt maps out the joys and the limits of the life he has chosen - or rather, the life that chose him - examining and reimagining parenthood, marriage, adulthood, and suburbia. Can a life be invented the way a poem can? With wit, beauty, tenderness, and virtuosity, these poems define the precarious end of extended adolescence and then ask what stands beyond.

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