Barbara Guest

Infobox Person
name = Barbara Guest


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birth_date = birth date|1920|9|6|df=y
birth_place = Wilmington, North Carolina
death_date = death date and age|2006|2|15|1920|9|6|df=y
death_place = Berkeley, California
occupation = American poet
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Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson (6 September, 1920 – 15 February, 2006) was an American poet and critic most often associated with the New York School.

Born in Wilmington, North Carolina and raised in California, Guest earned a B.A. in General Curriculum-Humanities in 1943 at UC Berkeley. She spent years in New York City where she became involved with the New York School Poets. She was also well-known for her book on the poet H.D., "Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World" (1984). In 1999, she was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America.

Publications

*"The Location of Things" (Tibor de Nagy, 1960)
*"Poems: The Location of Things, Archaics, The Open Skies" (Doubleday & Company, 1962)
*"The Open Skies" (1962)
*"The Blue Stairs" (Corinth Books, 1968)
*"Moscow Mansions" (Viking, 1973)
*"The Countess from Minneapolis" (Burning Deck Press, 1976)
*"Seeking Air" (Black Sparrow, 1977; reprint, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1997)
*"The Türler Losses" (Montréal: Mansfield Book Mart, 1979)
*"Biography" (Burning Deck, 1980)
*"Quilts" (Vehicle Edition, 1981)
*"Herself Defined: The Poet H. D. and Her World" (Doubleday & Company, 1984)
*"Fair Realism" (Sun & Moon Press, 1989)
*"Musicality" (1988)
*"Defensive Rapture" (Sun & Moon Press, 1993)
*"Selected Poems" (Sun & Moon Press, 1995)
*"Quill Solitary, Apparition" (The Post-Apollo Press, 1996)
*"Seeking Air" (Sun & Moon Press, 1997)
*"Etruscan Reader VI" (with Robin Blaser and Lee Harwood)(1998)
*"Rocks on a Platter" (Wesleyan, 1999)
*"If So, Tell Me" (Reality Street Editions, UK, 1999)
*"The Confetti Trees" (Sun & Moon, 1999)
*"Symbiosis" (Berkeley: [http://www.kelseyst.com/ Kelsey Street Press] , 2000)
*"Miniatures and Other Poems" (Wesleyan University Press, 2002)
*"Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writing" ( [http://www.kelseyst.com/ Kelsey Street Press] , 2003)
*"Durer in the Window: Reflexions on Art" (Roof Books, 2003)
*"The Red Gaze" (Wesleyan University Press, 2005)

External links

* [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/guest/ Barbara Guest site at Electronic Poetry Center]
* [http://jacketmagazine.com/bio/guest-b.html Barbara Guest site at Jacket Magazine]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/books/04guest.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=sloginPioneering Poet of the New York School, Is Dead at 85] NY Times obituary
* [http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/v1_1_1999/rbgendered.html "The Gendered Marvelous: Barbara Guest, surrealism, and feminist reception"] essay on Guest by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
* [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.onpoets.html?id=177716 When I Say the Word Home, I Almost Whisper It] Tribute & Remembrance on the passing of Guest
* [http://how2journal.com/bg_memorybank/bg_memory.html Barbara Guest Memory Bank] A gathering of brief memoirs and BG poems (selected by her readers) to honor the life and writing of Barbara Guest
* [http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2006/05/barbara-guest-red-gaze.html Review of 'The Red Gaze'] at poetry magazine "Intercapillary Space"
* [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/index_53_4.shtml "Chicago Review" special issue] on Guest

References