Susan Stewart, a poet, critic, and translator, is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. Her most recent books of poems-Red Rover, Columbarium (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award), and The Forest-and works of criticism, The Open Studio and Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, are all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Susan Stewart is an investigator of linguistic nuance and a new metaphysics, par excellence.... I believe she is one of the finest poets of the last fifty years. -John Kinsella, Salt Magazine Stewart's meditations on the history of poetry and the poetic are in themselves an original contribution to the philosophy of culture. -Hayden White, author of Figural Realism