I liked Stephen Burt as a critic before this - in fact, I...

I liked Stephen Burt as a critic before this - in fact, I've assigned his essays to my class before - but after this terrific essay on poetry and superheroes:
http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_burt3.php
I am even more of a fan. He talks about how poets can connect to wider mythology through superheroes, and also how they can be used as a kind of subversive accessibility:
"Poems about superheroes, famous or obscure, announce their divorce from expectations about high culture, antiquit...