Susan Stewart is a poet, critic, and translator. Her previous books of poetry include Columbarium, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Cinder: New and Selected Poems. A MacArthur Fellow and a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is also a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent prose books are Poetry’s Nature and The Ruins Lesson. She lives in Philadelphia.

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