Long Island, 1960

Barbara Guest (1920-2006)

Bio Notes | Publications | LINEbreak audio program



Published Nov. 2008

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Online Works
Guest Photo Gallery

Poems:
• "Blurred Edge" (pdf) (from Miniatures)
• Leica (uncollected)
• from Rocks on a Platter (How(ever))
• "Homepage" (1968)
• Nighthawk from HOW(ever)
• "An  Emphasis Falls on Reality" and "The Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights : from Fair Realism
• Multiplicity (Jacket2)
  
• Two early poems (c. 1945) from Jacket2
• from the Poetry Foundation:
  Finnish Opera
  Otranto
  Photographs
  Prairie Houses
  Santa Fe Trail
  The Screen of Distance
  A Way of Being
  Words
  

Writings:
• Invisible Architecture
• Wounded Joy (from APR)
• Mysteriously Defining the Mysterious: Byzantine Proposals of Poetry from HOW(ever)
  
  Audio:
  At PennSound
  
  About Barbara Guest:
  
  Poetry Foundation page(intro/selection)
  Poets.Org (intro/selection)
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• LINEbreak interview transcript
• Charles Bernstein, Barbara Guest: Composing Herself (Bookforum, April 2006; Jacket 29)
• Douglas Messerli (from Jacket)
• “When I Say The Word Home, I Almost Whisper It" by Cynthia Haven (obituary at poetryfoundation.org)
• Geoff Ward, obituary, in The Independent
• Erica Kaufman on The Red Gaze
• Rachel DuPlessis on Guest from How(ever)
• Robert Mueller, "Understanding What It Means to Understand Music" (original EPC publication)
• Timothy Gray (from Jacket)
• Jacket #10 feature
• Jacket #25 feature
• Jane Sprague (Jacket)
• How(2) feature

Page edited by: Anna Reckin (May 2000); edited by CB, 2007