About the Author

Susan Stewart is professor of English at Princeton University and a MacArthur Fellow. Her most recent critical study, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, received the 2002 Christian Gauss Award for literary criticism given by the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the 2004 Truman Capote Award for literary criticism. Stewart's latest poetry collection, Columbarium, won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Both books are published by the University of Chicago Press.