at the Amish School in West Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, Autumn 2006" uses language as stark and plain as hymns. This tragedy might hold a particular poignancy for [Susan] Stewart. Now an English professor at Princeton and an important theorist of poetry and aesthetics (in books such as The Open Studio and Poetry and the Fate of the Senses), she was once a child of the southern Pennsylvania countryside. She grew up observing the Amish; her love of the soft landscape they cohabited has become fused, in her poetry, with the tradition of the English pastoral lyric. from The Nation: Lullaby: Susan Stewart's Red Rover
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