Praise for HITS DIFFERENT: "Hits Different: Poems Not By Taylor Swift manages to be two solo acts and a collaborative duet at once. Burt and Daugherty are foundational Swift scholars, curators, and unabashed fans, capable of responding to her with a measure of distance and fall-into-her devotion at once. Both poets experiment with contemporized traditional forms here, but we also witness how influence, too, can function as form. Swift's oeuvre, her lexicon, her mystery, frame and restrain like one of her bejeweled corsets. But corsets are designed to be unlaced. Compression implies release. Even the chapbook's title announces (by mirroring a Taylor Swift title) that these poems will "hit different," that they are not by Taylor Swift. Burt and Daugherty claim authorship in collaboration with and resistance to their muse.

It's thrilling to read women who honor the Mother even as they give birth to themselves." --Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry Praise for TAYLOR'S VERSION: "Taylor Swift treats her own life as worthy of artistic obsession and grandeur; Stephanie Burt treats her oeuvre as worthy of academic and poetic attention.In Taylor's Version, Burt not only articulates the force of Swift's songwriting genius, but--perhaps more importantly--makes the case for her place in the literary tradition. A provocative, sharp, well-argued book for any Taylor Swift fan--or skeptic." --Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties "Depending on your feelings toward Ms. Swift, you may or may not want to like this book. Too bad, it's going to make you like it, and see the phenomenon in a way you never have before." --Catherynne M.

Valente, New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making "Taylor Swift is lucky to have a fan, a listener, and a writer as open to her music and as acute to its internal and emotional rhythms, Swift's craft and her audience's response, as Stephanie Burt. With unfailing lucidity, empathy, and wit, she takes a reader through the songs, until you can hear, all over again, how they really work." --Greil Marcus, music journalist "This is an outstanding look at one of the world's most beloved entertainers. a smart, incisive look at the singer-songwriter who has captured the world's imagination." --Kirkus (starred) Praise for INVISIBLE STRINGS: 113 POETS RESPOND TO THE SONGS OF TAYLOR SWIFT "Meditative, varied, and visceral, paying tribute to Swift's love of words and her deeply felt passions . [an] indelible, beautiful collection." --Booklist.