LEADER 03537nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910807029403321 005 20240506194100.0 010 $a1-282-58505-3 010 $a9786612585050 010 $a0-226-77445-7 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226774459 035 $a(CKB)2550000000013531 035 $a(EBL)534600 035 $a(OCoLC)638859553 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000414386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11290007 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10395507 035 $a(PQKB)11588580 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC534600 035 $a(DE-B1597)523831 035 $a(OCoLC)1135589646 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226774459 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL534600 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389573 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL258505 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000013531 100 $a20030321d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aColumbarium /$fSusan Stewart 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (134 p.) 225 1 $aPhoenix poets 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-77443-0 311 $a0-226-77444-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tI. THE ELEMENTS -- $tII. SHADOW GEORGICS -- $tIII. THE ELEMENTS -- $tNotes 330 $aWinner of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in the category of poetry. In her long-awaited fourth book of poetry, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of century forms, or books of one hundred pages, Columbarium expresses the bond between the living and the dead in voices of parent to child, lover to beloved, and mortal to the gods. The book arrives as a meditative gift from one of our most respected poet-critics. Stewart frames her Columbarium with four poems paying homage to the elements-to their destructive and creative aspects and to their roles in the human and more than human worlds. Both nest and crypt, the book's center holds an alphabet of "shadow georgics," poems of instruction and doubt that link knowledge and the unconscious. Questions of mortality, of goodness and suffering, and of the fragility and power of memory animate these poems. In one poem an apple calls the narrator back from the dead to savor the echoes of its varieties in myth and literature. In another, the seeds of a pear tree reveal the essential unity that makes the diversity of existence possible. Stewart's Columbarium is both a memorial to the dead and a testament to life. 410 0$aPhoenix poets. 606 $aAmerican poetry 610 $acentury forms, poetry, literature, contemporary, mortality, dignity, divinity, immortality, relationships, dead, death, love, eternal, meditation, longing, elements, creation, destruction, instruction, doubt, creative writing, knowledge, unconscious, goodness, suffering, memory, power, myth, existence, air, fire, mythology, greek gods, water, east, earth, nature. 615 0$aAmerican poetry. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aStewart$b Susan$f1952-$0168242 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807029403321 996 $aColumbarium$94025365 997 $aUNINA