Susan Stewart in Conversation

What is poetry? How should it be construed in relation to truth and history, as well as to ethics and politics? Does interdisciplinarity have a role to play in literary studies? These are some of the questions addressed by Susan Stewart in the interview with David Jonathan Bayot. This volume not only provides a succinct philosophical biography that highlights the wide range of Stewart’s interests. It likewise foregrounds her energetic engagements with poetics, folklore, translation, and the artistic-poetic practices in the United States and beyond. This book of conversation—candid and insightful—is an accessible and provocative introduction to the ideas of a major critical presence in literary and cultural studies in the Anglophone world.