Columbarium
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In Columbarium, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of century forms, or books of one hundred pages, Columbarium expresses the bond between the living and the dead in voices of parent to child, lover to beloved, and mortal to the gods. Questions of mortality, of goodness and suffering, and of the fragility and power of memory animate this text. Columbarium is both a memorial to the dead and a testament to life.
Susan Stewart is professor of English at Princeton University and a MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of three previous books of poetry, most recently The Forest, published by the University of Chicago Press, and winner of the Literary Award of the Philadelphia Atheneum in 1995. She has also written several award-winning books of literary and art criticism, including Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, also published by the University of Chicago Press.