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Language Arts October 7, 2014
Transcend and Organize
Pier Paolo Pasolini was a force against the incoherence hiding in every hypocrisy.
Susan Stewart
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Culture October 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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Culture August 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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Poetry June 30, 2010
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GET THE NATION IN YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING
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Books and Ideas March 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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Poetry January 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