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Bramble

Bramble

Stewart, Susan

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $22.50

ISBN10: 0226847462
ISBN13: 9780226847467
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

This seventh collection by acclaimed poet Susan Stewart offers a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature.

In the biblical book of Judges, the bramble is a figure of destructive leadership, thwarting the lives of trees. In ballads and fairy tales, roses grow 'round the briar in tragic contrast to heroines who are enveloped by the thorns. One of the oldest English words and an even older symbol, bramble reminds us of the entangled and unending struggle that comes with living in time and searching beyond appearances. The rough thicket presents impediments, yet it also bears fruit and delicate flowers.

With Bramble, Susan Stewart has composed a book of many forms, including satires, elegies, meditations, and songs. Bramble is also an exploration of the act of making such forms. The book's three sections--Mirror, Briar, and Channel--link lyric time to our lives as they are situated in history and nature. Reflecting upon illness, grief, and change, the poems follow the progress of day and night, the movement of the seasons, and the path of water from springs to the sea.

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