Susan Stewart (poet)
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| Born | March 15, 1952[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Dickinson College, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania |
| Notable awards | MacArthur Fellow |
Susan Stewart (born March 15, 1952) is an
literary critic. She is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, emerita, at Princeton University.[2]
In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[3]
Life
Professor Stewart holds
Ph.D. in Folklore
).
She teaches the philosophy of literature, most recently at Princeton University.[4]
Her poems have appeared in many journals including: Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Beloit Poetry Journal.
In the late 2000s she collaborated with composer
Wallace Stevens Award
on six occasions.
In 2005 Professor Stewart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]
About her work, the poet and critic Allen Grossman has written,
Stewart has built a poetic syntax capable of conveying an utterly singular account of consciousness, by the light of which it is possible to see the structure of the human world with a new clarity and an unforeseen precision, possible only in her presence and by means of her art.[6]
Awards
- Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award, a Reader's Digest Writer's Award
- two National Endowment for the Arts grants
- 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship[7]
- 1995 Pew Fellowships in the Arts[8]
- 1997 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
- 2003 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism from Phi Beta Kappa, for Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
- 2003 National Book Critics Circle award, for Columbarium
- 2004 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for Poetry and the Fate of the Senses[9]
Work
Criticism
- Nonsense: aspects of intertextuality in folklore and literature. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8018-2258-2.
- Crimes of Writing. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-506617-3.
- On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Duke University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8223-1366-3.
- Poetry and the Fate of the Senses. University of Chicago Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-226-77414-5.
- The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics. University of Chicago Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-226-77447-3. a collection of her writings on contemporary art.
- The Poet's Freedom:A Notebook on Making. University of Chicago Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-226-77387-2. a meditation on what freedom means to the artist.
Poetry
- Yellow Stars and Ice. Princeton University Press. 1981. ISBN 978-0-691-01379-4.
- The Hive. University of Georgia Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-8203-3267-3.
- The Forest. University of Chicago Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-226-77410-7.
- Columbarium. University of Chicago Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-226-77444-2.
- Red Rover. University of Chicago Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-226-77454-1.
Cinder: New and Selected Poems (2017, Graywolf Press)
Translations
- ISBN 978-0-19-512561-0.
- ISBN 978-88-8158-329-4.
Anthologies
- David Walker, ed. (2006). American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets. Oberlin College Press. ISBN 978-0-932440-28-0.
- Robert Hass; David Lehman, eds. (2001). "Apple". The Best American Poetry 2001. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0384-5.
References
- ^ Org, Poets. "Susan Stewart". poets.org. poets.org. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Susan Stewart | Department of English". english.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2023
- ^ "About Susan Stewart | Academy of American Poets".
- ^ "Poetry@Princeton » Susan Stewart". Archived from the original on 2009-12-14. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
- ^ "Calendar : Plutzik Reading Series : University of Rochester".
- ^ "Susan A. Stewart - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
- ^ "Susan Stewart". 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Princeton University - Poet, critic Susan Stewart earns Truman Capote Award". www.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-11-06.
External links
- Bio and additional info from Pew Fellowship
- "Susan Stewart", PennSound
- "On the Art of the Future", Slought foundation
- Susan Stewart Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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