Exploring the Aesthetics of Ruin and the Philosophy of Nature

An interview with Prof. Susan Stewart

Susan Stewart is a poet, scholar, occasional translator, and the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, emerita, at Princeton University. In this period, Prof. Stewart finishing a new book of poems and a book based upon four recent lectures on “poetry’s nature.” Her book The Ruins Lesson : Meaning and Material…