Susan Stewart
In 1952, Susan Stewart was born in Pennsylvania, and her education would take her through Dickinson College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University, forming the foundation for a career that spans poetry, literary criticism, translation, and scholarship.
Working in English, Stewart has built her professional life across multiple disciplines. As a poet, she received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, one of the most significant recognitions in American letters. Her work as a literary critic earned her the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, and her contributions to translation were acknowledged with the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. She has also held academic appointments as a professor and university teacher, bringing her critical and creative practice into the classroom. The range of her output reflects her sustained engagement with English-language literature from several vantage points simultaneously.
The honors that have accumulated across Stewart's career attest to the breadth of her work. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Berlin Prize, and the Athenaeum Literary Award, in addition to being named a MacArthur Fellow. Each of these awards corresponds to a distinct dimension of her practice — scholarly, creative, and civic — and together they document a sustained record of contribution across the fields of poetry, criticism, and translation. The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, in particular, marks her recognized work in bringing literature across linguistic boundaries.
Quotes by Susan Stewart
And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of the referent itself. Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.
The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.
The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.
Now is the time to start learning and read the financial press and find out. Women control household spending. So they really do have their hands on the pulse of what's going on in America. A lot of women over 40 do have the money saved ? but now it's that fear, 'How do I invest it wisely?' That's the more difficult equation.
The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.
They all have that drive and intensity. I think definitely our seniors feel that we could have gone farther last year. I'm not sure that the underclassmen have a sense of that yet, but I think they're going to work hard to make sure their season is as long as it can be this year.
As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.
Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.