“Freedom from Imagination”
Susan Stewart, Annan Professor of English, Princeton UniversityMonday, May 4, 2009
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Experience the complete proceedings on-line: streaming video of the lecture is now available.
Video (1:03 minutes)
Susan Stewart is the author of Columbarium, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry in 2003, and Red Rover, published last year. Her prose works include On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection; Poetry and the Fate of the Senses; and The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics. Her many translations include the recent Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini. She is a current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a former MacArthur Fellow.
This event is free and open to the public.
