De La Salle University Publishing House (DLSUPH)
Susan Stewart in Conversation
by: Susan Stewart and David Jonathan Y. Bayot
Published and distributed by
De La Salle University (DLSU) Publishing House, 2015
ISBN 978-971-555-614-9
49 pages
What is poetry? How should it be construed in relation to truth and history, as well as to ethics and politics? Does interdisciplinarity have a role to play in literary studies? These are some of the questions addressed by Susan Stewart in the interview with David Jonathan Bayot. This volume not only provides a succinct philosophical biography that highlights the wide range of Stewart’s interests. It likewise foregrounds her energetic engagements with poetics, folklore, translation, and the artistic-poetic practices in the United States and beyond. This book of conversation—candid and insightful—is an accessible and provocative introduction to the ideas of a major critical presence in literary and cultural studies in the Anglophone world.
SUSAN STEWART is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University. A poet and critic, she teaches the history of poetry, poetics, and issues in aesthetics. Her critical works include Nonsense (1979), Crimes of Writing (1991), On Longing (1993), The Open Studio (2002), Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (2005), and The Poet’s Freedom (2011). Her books of poems include Yellow Stars and Ice (1981), The Hive (1987), The Forest (1995), Columbarium (2003), and Red Rover (2008). Her translation works include Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini (2009), Laudomia Bonanni’s The Reprisal (2013; with Sara Teardo), and Milo De Angelis’s Theme of Farewell and After-Poems (2013; with Patrizio Ceccagnoli). Her criticism has won the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa and the Truman Capote Award, and her poetry, the National Book Critics Circle award. A former MacArthur Fellow, Stewart was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
DAVID JONATHAN Y. BAYOT is Associate Professor of Literature at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines; the general editor of the Critics in Conversation series published by the DLSU Publishing House; and the general editor of the Critical Voices series published by Sussex Academic Press.