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Literary Criticism

Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226792200, ISBN: HB: 9780226632612, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 80 halftones

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this q...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

Poet's Freedom A Notebook on Making

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226773872, ISBN: HB: 9780226773865, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm

Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in "The Poet's Freed...

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Poetry

Red Rover

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226774558, ISBN: HB: 9780226774541, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
120 pp., 21.3x15.2 cm

"Red Rover" is both the name of a children's game and a formless spirit, a god of release and permission, called upon in the course of that game. The "red rover" is also a thread of desire, and a clue to the forces of love and antipathy that shape ou...

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Contemporary Art

Open Studio Essays on Art and Aesthetics

Stewart Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780226774466, University of Chicago Press, January 2005
256 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 36 halftones

Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and lea...

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