Winner 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.
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