Susan Stewart’s most recent book of poems is Red Rover. Last year she published a prose study, The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making. She is currently a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
Poetry
Spring 2010
Two Poems on the Name of Vermeer
Toward the Lake Morning light, light at dusk, now and then a step from each other, the endless tuning of one string against another. Perfection in the first means the […]
Poetry
Summer 2003
The Rose
Not so long ago, or was it?—the bud was tightly wound and the edge as hard to start as a roll of cellophane tape. (though it wasn’t up to you […]
Poetry
Summer 2003
Wrought from the Generation of Earth
One boot planted, firm as a trunk, the other shoved down on the shovel, shoving with a human weight that barely dents the crust over the outcrop of flinty veins […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1997
Our Ruin
Quid est in hominis natura diu? “She’s reading about what endures.” In and by this outcry I shall deliver myself from the ruins of them that perish; for a […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2018
From “Encounters and Ambushes”
From the Italian. This death is a repair shop I’ve been working here for years and years and know the solid parts and the shoddy ones, the lucky days, […]