Susan Stewart

Susan Stewart is the author, most recently, of Red Rover, a book of poems, and The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making.

Transcend and Organize

Transcend and Organize Transcend and Organize

Pier Paolo Pasolini was a force against the incoherence hiding in every hypocrisy.

Oct 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart

Atavistic Sonnet Atavistic Sonnet

Shadow of the gull on the airport wall, lunging as the fuselage vaults above the meadow. Hollow in the cornrow where the hobo slept, then a backhoe filling up the furrow. Misery of clocks in neon glare, whereabouts of warblers and island foxes, an old flame googled from the dead letter office, simple as the still-warm bench at dusk. Typing or sewing, or bringing down a fever through a length of knotted string and a rusted staple gun. Here comes the tattooed witch with her drum while the royals wait by the limousine grinning. Shadow of the gull on the airport wall, shallows in the stairs where we fell and stepped, hollow in the cornrow where the hobo slept, a backhoe filling the furrow.

Oct 8, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart

Lyric Nation: Three Poems by Susan Stewart

Lyric Nation: Three Poems by Susan Stewart Lyric Nation: Three Poems by Susan Stewart

"There Is No Natural Death," "The Forest," "The Owl"

Apr 2, 2012 / Audio / Susan Stewart

Discandied: On Women and Elegy Discandied: On Women and Elegy

Learning to mourn with Susan Howe, Gertrude Schnackenberg, Anne Carson and C.D. Wright.

Aug 24, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart

Mirror, Mask, Labyrinth Mirror, Mask, Labyrinth

Two new collections of the poems of Jorge Luis Borges.

Jun 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart

Antica e Moderna: The Poetry of Umberto Saba Antica e Moderna: The Poetry of Umberto Saba

The poems of Umberto Saba let tradition speak to and through modernity.

Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart

A Human Pledge 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.

Jan 2, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart

There Is No Natural Death 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 meant

Jun 7, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart

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