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Barbara Guest on LINEbreak with Charles Bernstein (1995, recorded in NY)

  1. introduction (0:52): MP3
  2. A Reason (1:09): MP3
  3. on the New York Poets and their relation to painting (3:31): MP3
  4. Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher (1:39): MP3
  5. Niege Fondant (1:51): MP3
  6. on how her work has changed (0:42): MP3
  7. on imagination (2:16): MP3
  8. on realism (1:30): MP3
  9. An Emphasis Falls on Reality (2:45): MP3
  10. on how her books connect (0:36): MP3
  11. Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights (4:08): MP3
  12. on her identity as a woman (2:00): MP3
  13. Borderlands (2:04): MP3
  14. Multiplicity (2:58): MP3
Full program (29:01): mp3
transcript of LINEbreak show at Jacket2

Studio recording called The Location of Things (reading from poems dated 1960 to 1979)

[Note: The Location of Things is the title of Guest's 1960 volume; this commercial recording included readings from that book and others.]

  1. Windy Afternoon (0:49) [Collected Poems, p. 8]: MP3
  2. The Piazza (1:52) [titled "Piazzas," CP, p. 4]: MP3
  3. Santa Fe Trail (1:23) [in The Open Skies, CP p. 49]: MP3
  4. Sunday Evening (1:10) [CP, p. 13]: MP3
  5. The Blue Stairs (2:13) [from The Blue Stairs, CP, p. 61]: MP3
  6. Saving Tallow (1:46) [from The Blue Stairs, CP, p. 71]: MP3
  7. The Return of the Muses (2:15) [CP, p. 72]: MP3
  8. A Handbook of Surfing (9:55) [CP, p. 85]: MP3
  9. Turkey Villas (2:22) [CP, p. 64]: MP3
  10. Egypt (1:15) [from Moscow Mansions, CP, p. 100]: MP3
  11. Roses (1:20) [CP, p. 128]: MP3
  12. Passage (for John Coltrane) (1:21) [CP, p. 130]: MP3
  13. Knight of the Swan (11:42) [CP, p. 108]: MP3
  14. The Countess from Minneapolis (excerpts) (8:29) [CP, pp. 143-66]: MP3
  15. The Turler Losses (excerpts) (9:25) [CP, p. 169-182]: MP3

Credits for The Location of Things:

Selections 1-4, Poems, Doubleday and Company, Inc. Selections 5-9, The Blue Stairs, Corinth Books. Selections 10-13, Moscow Mansions, A Richard Seaver Book/The Viking Press. Selection 14, The Countess from Minneapolis, Burning Deck. Selection 15, The Turler Losses, Mansfield Book Mart Ltd. Copyright © 1962, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1979 by Barbara Guest.

Recording History: All selections were recorded at Artist's Access Studio, New York, New York, May, 1984 Producer: Anne Becker Recording Engineer: Peter Darmi Post Prod. Engineers: Anne Becker & Katherin Mattern Executive Producer: Alan Austin

Reading and lecture/discussion at SUNY-Buffalo - April 1 & 2, 1992

poetry reading - April 1

Entire reading (43:50): MP3

  1. The Nude (8:02) [from Fair Realism, 1989; CP, p. 238]: MP3
  2. The Farewell Stairway (3:15) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 232]: MP3
  3. An Emphasis Falls on Reality (2:37) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 221]: MP3; text
  4. Heavy Violets (0:46) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 232]: MP3
  5. The Cradle of Culture (2:08) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 250]: MP3
  6. Otranto (6:38) [from Defensive Rapture, 1993; CP, p. 300]: MP3
  7. Dove (2:26) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 261]: MP3
  8. Defensive Rapture (2:33) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 277]: MP3
  9. Borderlands (1:57) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 288]: MP3
  10. Winter Horses (2:04) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 304]: MP3
  11. The Glass Mountain (3:17) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 295]: MP3
  12. Earrings (1:17) [Note: This poem, beginning "Running over the edge...," is not in Collected and might be unpublished.]: MP3
  13. Dissonance, Royal Traveller (4:10) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 289]: MP3

lecture and seminar discussion - April 2, 1992

  • I. Lecture titled "How I Got out of Poetry and into Prose" (20:24): MP3
  • II. Seminar discussion (1:37:35): MP3
  • [Note: This recording drops out once at 0:26:00 minutes and again and 1:13:00 when cassette was flipped or changed during recording.]

Reading from The Red Gaze

The Red Gaze (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)

Recorded for PennSound by Allan Graham, Berkeley, April 7, 2004:

  1. Nostalgia of the Infinite (1:39) [titled "Nostalgia" in the book]: MP3
  2. An Afternoon in Jeopardy (1:24): MP3
  3. Imagined Room (0:57): MP3
  4. She Honors De Chirico (0:54) [title changed to "Loneliness" for the book]: MP3
  5. A Different Honey (0:39): MP3
  6. A Short Narrative (0:29): MP3
  7. Roman Stripes (0:56): MP3
  8. The Next Floor (1:02): MP3
  9. Freedom (0:43): MP3
  10. The Hungry Knight (0:35): MP3
  11. The Trickster (0:44): MP3
  12. The Past (0:31): MP3
  13. Modernism (0:46): MP3
  14. A Burst of Leaves (0:35): MP3
  15. The Smooth Stair (0:49): MP3
  16. Alteration (0:32): MP3
  17. Freed Color (1:35): MP3
  18. Green Numbers (0:50): MP3
  19. The Brown Vest (0:39): MP3
  20. The Gold Tap (0:22): MP3
  21. The Red Gaze (0:45): MP3
  22. A Dawn Walk (0:36): MP3
  23. Untitled (0:23) [on p. 36 of the book]: MP3
  24. Hans Hofmann (2:26) [slightly longer than the published version]: MP3
  25. Vignettes (0:26) [one line shorter than version published in the book]: MP3
  26. Echoes (0:20) [one line shorter than version published in the book]: MP3
  27. Instructions (0:29): MP3
  28. Composition (0:41): MP3
  29. Supposition (0:15): MP3
  30. [quotation from Theodor Adorno] (0:16) [the book's epigraph]: MP3

Appearing with John Ashbery on P.E.N. Portraits, hosted by Anne Fremantle, WNYC, May 22, 1977

Complete program (28:52): MP3

  1. Passage (for John Coltraine) [CP, p. 130] (1:25): MP3
  2. June (0:17): MP3

Appearing on Susan Howe's Poetry Program on WBAI-Pacifica Radio, April 13, 1978

Complete program (1:06:31): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, January 25, 1986

  • Howe, Owen, and Einzing read Barbara Guest's poetry
  • Complete Reading (30:27): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 2, 1993

Complete Reading (30:59): MP3

Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics Episode #34 with host Leonard Schwartz

Complete program (1:02:12): MP3

Barbara Guest Praise Day Tribute at The Bowery Poetry Club, October 21, 2006

with special guest Hadley Haden Guest and host Kristin Prevallet

Introduction by Kristin Prevallet (2:32): MP3

Lytle Shaw (13:52): MP3

  1. introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:36): MP3
  2. Santa Fe Trail (2:39): MP3
  3. Parade's End (0:55): MP3
  4. Nebraska (2:23): MP3
  5. from Herself Defined: H.D. and her World (2:25): MP3
  6. Activities (1:47): MP3

Lewis Warsh (6:51): MP3

  1. introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:32): MP3
  2. discussing The New American Poetry and "Parachutes" (3:50): MP3
  3. Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher (0:57): MP3
  4. discussing "Santa Fe Trail" (1:26): MP3

Marcella Durand (7:47): MP3

  1. introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:40): MP3
  2. Invisible Architecture (3:25): MP3
  3. discussing "Invisible Architecture" (0:38): MP3
  4. The Poetess (0:49): MP3
  5. An Emphasis Falls on Reality (2:11): MP3

Charles Bernstein (14:58): MP3

  1. introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:38): MP3
  2. remembering Barbara Guest (4:32): MP3
  3. Composing Herself (Bookforum, April 2006; Jacket 29) (9:47): MP3

Africa Wayne (12:18): MP3

  1. introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:26): MP3
  2. on her friendship with Barbara Guest (1:37): MP3
  3. Turkey Villas (3:30): MP3
  4. A Reason (0:55): MP3
  5. on listening to Barbara Guest read (0:43): MP3
  6. The Farewell Stairway (3:31): MP3
  7. Negative Possibility (1:09): MP3

Charles North (8:53): MP3

  1. introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:44): MP3
  2. on his relationship with Barbara Guest (3:09): MP3
  3. Another July (1:01): MP3
  4. Roses (1:19): MP3
  5. The Location of Things (2:20): MP3

Erica Kaufman (7:42): MP3

  1. introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:45): MP3
  2. from Seeking Air (4:35): MP3
  3. on Barbara Guest's work (0:51): MP3
  4. from Confetti Trees (1:27): MP3

Conclusion (6:19): MP3

Complete reading (1:18:40): MP3

Susan Gevirtz Interviews Hadley Guest about Barbara Guest, Berkeley, May 9, 2007

  • part 1 (30:44): MP3
  • part 2 (46:42): MP3
  • part 3 (15:32): MP3

Kathleen Fraser Interviews Hadley Guest about Barbara Guest, Berkeley, July 17, 2007

  1. introduction (0:23): MP3
  2. Hadley Guest reading "The Next Floor" by Barbara Guest (0:51): MP3
  3. Kathleen Fraser on being introduced to Barbara Guest and her work (13:46): MP3
  4. Barbara Guest's friendship with painters (9:33): MP3
  5. Hadley Guest on growing up around poets and painters (5:15): MP3
  6. the division between uptown and downtown in the New York art world in the 60s (12:31): MP3
  7. Barbara Guest's refusal to be pigeon-holed (2:23): MP3
  8. the cruelty of the downtown scene and Barbara Guest's intentional erasure (18:31): MP3
  9. Hadley Guest on living with Barbara during the last few years of her life and hearing about her first marriage to John Dudley (7:18): MP3
  10. Trumbull Higgins and social position in relation to money (11:33): MP3
  11. Barbara's uptown studio and her strong family feelings (16:55): MP3
  12. Barbara's shared apartment with Perdita Schaffner and her experience working and walking around Union Square (5:00): MP3
  13. productivity, freedom, and moving west (4:15): MP3
  14. Stephen Guest and introducing Barbara Guest to H.D. (15:35): MP3
  15. Barbara's work on H.D. (12:27): MP3
  16. Barbara's awareness of women writers, her relation to feminism, and her commitment to being a wife and mother as well as a poet (15:29): MP3
complete recording (2:31:56): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #24, discussing Guest's "Roses," October 19, 2009

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

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