Overview :This seventh collection by acclaimed poet Susan Stewart offers a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature. In the Biblical book of... Read More
Overview :Susan Stewart plumbs human history in an attempt to articulate the way language, memory, and art join in evoking consciousness. The Forest i... Read More
Overview :How is poetry a living art? This is the question at the heart of Poetry's Nature. Although it is common to speak of "nature poetry," Stewart... Read More
Overview :The Hive, Susan Stewart's second collection of poetry, brings together new work into three sections that telescope out from private speech t... Read More
Overview :From a sequence, "The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden" Gihon, that compasseth the whole land At the first frost we found our sheep... Read More
Overview :"One of the finest poets of the last fifty years." --Saltto the Nth, like the truth of an endingunskeined across the crust of the white fiel... Read More
Overview :Throughout history, women (and men) have applied make-up to enhance, alter, conceal and even to disguise their appearance. Also, to a greate... Read More
Overview :How widely did women use make-up in ancient Rome and what evidence exists? In this pioneering study, the author draws on literary, non-liter... Read More
Overview :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 c... Read More
Overview :From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction,... Read More
Overview :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 wo... Read More
Overview :How have ruins become so valued in Western culture, and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical... Read More
Overview :From a "comic strip" papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, "nonsense" texts reveal a set of possi... Read More
Overview :From sustainable tourism to managing events, this third edition helps students understand key travel and tourism ideas and equips them with ... Read More
Overview :This best-selling text on marriages, families, and relationships combines an authoritative, yet applied approach with a theme that is especi... Read More
Overview :What is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? How does poetry carry on the long tradition of making experience and... Read More