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Bramble

by Susan Stewart

National Book · 2026 · Longlist
University of Chicago PressPoetry96 pagesISBN 9780226847467

Award History

AwardYearStatus
National Book Award for Poetry2026Longlist

About This Book

A three-part meditation on contradiction, entanglement, and struggle, evoking ballads, fairy tales, and the biblical book of Judges. Suffused with song, poetry, and elegy, the collection explores personal suffering and change, then applies that philosophy to the world around us. Longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry.

About the Author

Susan Stewart (born 1952) is an American poet, literary critic, and translator. She earned degrees from Dickinson College (BA), Johns Hopkins University (MA), and the University of Pennsylvania (PhD), and is Avalon Foundation University Professor Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of English at Princeton University. Notable works include poetry collections such as Cinder: New and Selected Poems (2017) and Columbarium (2003, National Book Critics Circle Award), and criticism like Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (2002, Christian Gauss and Truman Capote Awards); she has received a MacArthur Fellowship and served as Chancellor of the.

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