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Susan
Stewart, Award-Winning Poet and Critic, Lectures on
“Praising Dejection,” At Pomona College
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Award-winning poet Susan Stewart will discuss “Praising
Dejection” for the Pomona College English Department’s 2005
Charles B. Holmes Memorial Lecture, on Thursday, March 10,
at 4:15 p.m. The event will be held in college’s Crookshank
Hall, Ena Thompson Reading Room (140 W. Sixth Street,
Claremont). The lecture is open to the public, and there is
no cost to attend. For more information, call (909)
607-2212.
Stewart most recent collections of poetry, the 2003
Columbarium, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Her poetry collections include The Forest (1995) and
Yellow Stars and Ice (1981). Her books of criticism
include Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (2002),
winner of both the Christian Gauss Award for Literary
Criticism from Phi Beta Kappa and the Truman Capote Award in
Literary Criticism; On Longing: Narratives of the
Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
(1993); Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of
Representation (1991); and Nonsense (1989).
Her collected essays on art, The Open Studio: Essays in
Art and Aesthetics, was published by the University of
Chicago Press (2004). In addition, she has co-translated
Euripides’ Andromache with Wesley Smith, and the poetry and
prose of the Scuola Romana painter Scipione with Brunella
Antomarini.
A 1997 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant,
Stewart has also been recognized with a Lila Wallace
Individual Writer’s Award, two grants in poetry from the
National Endowment in the Arts, a Pew Fellowship for the
Arts, and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
Stewart is a professor of English at Princeton University
where she teaches the history of poetry and aesthetics.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offers a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. Visit Pomona College on the Web at
www.pomona.edu. |
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