Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia in 1942. His poetry publications include the pamphlets Searched For Text (2008) and Certain Windows (2011), and Cold Eye, a collaboration with the artist Paul Hodgson (2010). His poetry was included in Carcanet’s New Poetries V anthology and has been published in periodicals including the TLS, Poetry Review, The New Statesman, Financial Times and PN Review.
‘Prostitution, gambling, fencing, contract murder, loan-sharking, political corruption and crime of every sort were the daily trade in Philadelphia’s Tenderloin, the oldest part of town.’
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