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Language ArtsOctober 7, 2014
Transcend and Organize
Pier Paolo Pasolini was a force against the incoherence hiding in every hypocrisy.
Susan Stewart
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CultureOctober 8, 2013
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April 2, 2012
Lyric Nation: Three Poems by Susan Stewart
“There Is No Natural Death,” “The Forest,” “The Owl”
Susan Stewart
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CultureAugust 24, 2011
Discandied: On Women and Elegy
Learning to mourn with Susan Howe, Gertrude Schnackenberg, Anne Carson and C.D. Wright.
Susan Stewart
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PoetryJune 30, 2010
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Books and IdeasMarch 18, 2009
Antica e Moderna: The Poetry of Umberto Saba
The poems of Umberto Saba let tradition speak to and through modernity.
Susan Stewart
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PoetryJanuary 2, 2008
A Human Pledge
The most important American love poet in living memory, Robert Creeley celebrated the body and its ambivalent desires with a touch as light as a song.
Susan Stewart
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June 7, 2007
There Is No Natural Death
In the Iliad, there is no natural death–
everything comes about by intent
as if the pulse and very breath
we take were something meantSusan Stewart