Susan Stewart is a poet, critic, and translator, and the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, emerita, at Princeton University. Her books of poems include Columbarium, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and Cinder: New and Selected Poems. Her prose works include The Ruins Lesson, The Poet's Freedom, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, and On Longing. A former MacArthur Fellow, Berlin Fellow, and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she also is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

An immaculately expressed work of acuity and empathy that draws primarily on medieval to modern English language poetry. It explores poetries of animal sound, flowing water, and seasonal change, and conceives of nature itself as creativity and meaning.

Susan Stewart is a poet, critic, and translator, and the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, emerita, at Princeton University. Her books of poems include Columbarium, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and Cinder: New and Selected Poems. Her prose works include The Ruins Lesson, The Poet's Freedom, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, and On Longing. A former MacArthur Fellow, Berlin Fellow, and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she also is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

An immaculately expressed work of acuity and empathy that draws primarily on medieval to modern English language poetry. It explores poetries of animal sound, flowing water, and seasonal change, and conceives of nature itself as creativity and meaning.