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PoemTalk #24, Discussing Barbara Guest's "Roses", feat. Natalie Gerber, Randall Couch, and Michelle Taransky
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Barbara Guest on LINEbreak with Charles Bernstein (1995, recorded in NY)
- Introduction (0:52): MP3
- A Reason (1:09): MP3
- on the New York Poets and their relation to painting (3:31): MP3
- Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher (1:39): MP3
- Neige Fondant (1:51): MP3
- on how her work has changed (0:42): MP3
- on imagination (2:16): MP3
- on realism (1:30): MP3
- An Emphasis Falls on Reality (2:45): MP3
- on how her books connect (0:36): MP3
- Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights (4:08): MP3
- on her identity as a woman (2:00): MP3
- Borderlands (2:04): MP3
- Multiplicity (2:58): MP3
Complete program (29:01): mp3
transcript of LINEbreak show at Jacket2
- Introduction (0:23): MP3
- Hadley Guest reading "The Next Floor" by Barbara Guest (0:51): MP3
- Kathleen Fraser on being introduced to Barbara Guest and her work (13:46): MP3
- Barbara Guest's friendship with painters (9:33): MP3
- Hadley Guest on growing up around poets and painters (5:15): MP3
- the division between uptown and downtown in the New York art world in the 60s (12:31): MP3
- Barbara Guest's refusal to be pigeon-holed (2:23): MP3
- the cruelty of the downtown scene and Barbara Guest's intentional erasure (18:31): MP3
- 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
- Trumbull Higgins and social position in relation to money (11:33): MP3
- Barbara's uptown studio and her strong family feelings (16:55): MP3
- Barbara's shared apartment with Perdita Schaffner and her experience working and walking around Union Square (5:00): MP3
- productivity, freedom, and moving west (4:15): MP3
- Stephen Guest and introducing Barbara Guest to H.D. (15:35): MP3
- Barbara's work on H.D. (12:27): MP3
- 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
- Part 1 (30:44): MP3
- Part 2 (46:42): MP3
- Part 3 (15:32): 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 (0:36): MP3
- Santa Fe Trail (2:39): MP3
- Parade's End (0:55): MP3
- Nebraska (2:23): MP3
- from Herself Defined: H.D. and her World (2:25): MP3
- Activities (1:47): MP3
- Introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:32): MP3
- discussing The New American Poetry and "Parachutes" (3:50): MP3
- Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher (0:57): MP3
- discussing "Santa Fe Trail" (1:26): MP3
- Introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:40): MP3
- Invisible Architecture (3:25): MP3
- discussing "Invisible Architecture" (0:38): MP3
- The Poetess (0:49): MP3
- An Emphasis Falls on Reality (2:11): MP3
- Introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:38): MP3
- remembering Barbara Guest (4:32): MP3
- Composing Herself (Bookforum, April 2006; Jacket 29) (9:47): MP3
Africa Wayne (12:18): MP3
- Introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:26): MP3
- on her friendship with Barbara Guest (1:37): MP3
- Turkey Villas (3:30): MP3
- A Reason (0:55): MP3
- on listening to Barbara Guest read (0:43): MP3
- The Farewell Stairway (3:31): MP3
- Negative Possibility (1:09): MP3
- Introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:44): MP3
- on his relationship with Barbara Guest (3:09): MP3
- Another July (1:01): MP3
- Roses (1:19): MP3
- The Location of Things (2:20): MP3
"Roses" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 24.
- Introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:45): MP3
- from Seeking Air (4:35): MP3
- on Barbara Guest's work (0:51): MP3
- from Confetti Trees (1:27): MP3
Conclusion (6:19): MP3
Complete reading (1:18:40): MP3
Reading from The Red Gaze
The Red Gaze (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)
Recorded for PennSound by Allan Graham, Berkeley, April 7, 2004:
- Nostalgia of the Infinite (1:39) [titled "Nostalgia" in the book]: MP3
- An Afternoon in Jeopardy (1:24): MP3
- Imagined Room (0:57): MP3
- She Honors De Chirico (0:54) [title changed to "Loneliness" for the book]: MP3
- A Different Honey (0:39): MP3
- A Short Narrative (0:29): MP3
- Roman Stripes (0:56): MP3
- The Next Floor (1:02): MP3
- Freedom (0:43): MP3
- The Hungry Knight (0:35): MP3
- The Trickster (0:44): MP3
- The Past (0:31): MP3
- Modernism (0:46): MP3
- A Burst of Leaves (0:35): MP3
- The Smooth Stair (0:49): MP3
- Alteration (0:32): MP3
- Freed Color (1:35): MP3
- Green Numbers (0:50): MP3
- The Brown Vest (0:39): MP3
- The Gold Tap (0:22): MP3
- The Red Gaze (0:45): MP3
- A Dawn Walk (0:36): MP3
- Untitled (0:23) [on p. 36 of the book]: MP3
- Hans Hofmann (2:26) [slightly longer than the published version]: MP3
- Vignettes (0:26) [one line shorter than version published in the book]: MP3
- Echoes (0:20) [one line shorter than version published in the book]: MP3
- Instructions (0:29): MP3
- Composition (0:41): MP3
- Supposition (0:15): MP3
- [quotation from Theodor Adorno] (0:16) [the book's epigraph]: MP3
Reading at The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1999
- Reading on August 14, 1999 (51:44): MP3
- Reading on August 15, 1999 (48:49): MP3
Reading in the Mumford Room at the Library of Congress, December 5, 1996
Complete recording (1:05:51); MP3
- Introduction by Robert Haas (10:43): MP3
- Windy Afternoon (0:57): MP3
- Washington (1:47): MP3
- Green Onions (1:45): MP3
- Santa Fe Trail (1:37): MP3
- Sunday Evening (1:15): MP3
- Another July (0:56): MP3
- Living Solitarily in the Garret (1:22): MP3
- Roses (2:05): MP3
- Nebraska (2:34): MP3
- Heavy Violets (0:20): MP3
- Heavy Violets 2 (0:26): MP3
- Borderlands (1:34): MP3
- The Blue Stairs (2:32): MP3
- Parade's End (0:51): MP3
- An Emphasis Falls on Reality (2:09): MP3
- Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights (3:06): MP3
- The View from Kandinsky's Window (1:35): MP3
- Prairie Houses (1:18): MP3
- The Sunroom (1:01): MP3
- There Was a Poem (0:26): MP3; JPG
- Dissonance Royal Traveller (2:53): MP3
- The Farewell Stairway (2:52): MP3
- Winter Horses (1:34): MP3
- The Surface as Object (1:27): MP3
Recording courtesy of Library of Congress
"Roses" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 24.
Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 2, 1993
- Introduction (0:47): MP3
- La Problema (1:12): MP3
- Hieroglyph Acres (1:14): MP3
- Memory Pale Chloroform (1:56): MP3
- If So (2:09): MP3
- Post Office Wisdom (2:02): MP3
- Bold Plan (1:54): MP3
- Ojjiba (6:10): MP3
- The Advance of the Grizzly (2:53): MP3
- Winter Horses (2:40): MP3
- Motion Picture 1 (1:58): MP3
- Motion Picture 4 (4:00): MP3
- Trousers for Extras (1:08): MP3
Complete reading (30:59): MP3
Reading and lecture/discussion at SUNY-Buffalo - April 1 & 2, 1992
poetry reading - April 1
Entire reading (43:50): MP3
- The Nude (8:02) [from Fair Realism, 1989; CP, p. 238]: MP3
- The Farewell Stairway (3:15) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 232]: MP3
- An Emphasis Falls on Reality (2:37) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 221]: MP3; text
- Heavy Violets (0:46) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 232]: MP3
- The Cradle of Culture (2:08) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 250]: MP3
- Otranto (6:38) [from Defensive Rapture, 1993; CP, p. 300]: MP3
- Dove (2:26) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 261]: MP3
- Defensive Rapture (2:33) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 277]: MP3
- Borderlands (1:57) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 288]: MP3
- Winter Horses (2:04) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 304]: MP3
- The Glass Mountain (3:17) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 295]: MP3
- Earrings (1:17) [Note: This poem, beginning "Running over the edge...," is not in Collected and might be unpublished.]: MP3
- 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.]
An Emphasis Falls on Reality (2:32): MP3
(2:32)
- "Mysteriously Speaking of the Mysterious Byzantine Proposals of the Poem"
- Introduction (2:48): MP3
- Talk by Barbara Guest (24:59): MP3
- Discussion (54:21): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, January 25, 1986
Susan Howe, Maureen Owen, and Barbara Einzig read from Barbara Guest's Seeking Air
- Introduction (1:04): MP3
- Kathleen Fraser on Seeking Air (3:26): MP3
- Susan Howe: Seeking Air, epigraph (0:33): MP3
- Barbara Einzig: Seeking Air, opening (5:10): MP3
- Maureen Owen: Seeking Air, 7 (1:19): MP3
- Susan Howe: Seeking Air, 11 (0:58): MP3
- Susan Howe: Seeking Air, 12 (1:03): MP3
- Maureen Owen: Seeking Air, 19 (1:43): MP3
- Susan Howe: Seeking Air, 20 (1:49): MP3
- Barbara Einzig: Seeking Air, 22 (2:30): MP3
- Maureen Owen: Seeking Air, 28 (3:12): MP3
- Barbara Einzig: Seeking Air, 40 (3:21): MP3
- Maureen Owen: Seeking Air, 63 (0:49): MP3
- Susan Howe: Seeking Air, 90 (1:00): MP3
- Susan Howe: Seeking Air, 100 (0:25): MP3
- Maureen Owen: Seeking Air, 102 (0:21): MP3
Complete reading (30:27): MP3
The Location of Things, Studio Recording, May 1984
(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.]
- Windy Afternoon (0:49) [Collected Poems, p. 8]: MP3
- The Piazza (1:52) [titled "Piazzas," CP, p. 4]: MP3
- Santa Fe Trail (1:23) [in The Open Skies, CP p. 49]: MP3
- Sunday Evening (1:10) [CP, p. 13]: MP3
- The Blue Stairs (2:13) [from The Blue Stairs, CP, p. 61]: MP3
- Saving Tallow (1:46) [from The Blue Stairs, CP, p. 71]: MP3
- The Return of the Muses (2:15) [CP, p. 72]: MP3
- A Handbook of Surfing (9:55) [CP, p. 85]: MP3
- Turkey Villas (2:22) [CP, p. 64]: MP3
- Egypt (1:15) [from Moscow Mansions, CP, p. 100]: MP3
- Roses (1:20) [CP, p. 128]: MP3
- Passage (for John Coltrane) (1:21) [CP, p. 130]: MP3: text
- Knight of the Swan (11:42) [CP, p. 108]: MP3
- The Countess from Minneapolis (excerpts) (8:29) [CP, pp. 143-66]: MP3
- 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
"Roses" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 24.
Reading for Emily Dickinson's Birthday Celebration, St. Mark's Church in the Bowery Poetry Project, December 10, 1979
- Guest reads “3 a.m. Amagansett” and Biography (8:22): MP3
- Red Lilies (1:08): MP3
- on her childhood and when she started to write (1:47): MP3
- on Stephen Guest and H.D. (2:40): MP3
- on using a male persona in Seeking Air (2:42): MP3
- "I don't think I could stand the noise of this city a day longer..." [excerpt, from Seeking Air] (1:55): MP3
- on Wide Sargasso Sea (0:24): MP3
- "Night wind blowing from the north..." [excerpt, from Seeking Air] (1:47): MP3
- on her interest in colonial life (1:25): MP3
- "Dark, indeed, must have always been mixed..." [excerpt, from Seeking Air] (2:12): MP3
- "I think of the sallow-skinned men..." [excerpt, from Seeking Air] (1:01): MP3
- on George Seferis (1:18): MP3
- "It was like driving a ball from behind that clump of grass..." [excerpt, from Seeking Air] (4:55): MP3
- on the difference between writing novels and poetry (2:00): MP3
- on biography, autobiography, and Ford Madox's The Good Soldier (2:09): MP3
- on breaking down the old idea of hero and heroine (0:59): MP3
- on the process of working on an autobiography of H.D. (5:52): MP3
- on particular writers who have been important to her (1:11): MP3
Complete program (1:06:31): MP3
Appearing with John Ashbery on P.E.N. Portraits, hosted by Anne Fremantle, WNYC, May 22, 1977
- Introduction (3:42): MP3
- responding to Emily Dickinson's statement that some words made her want to take off her hat to them (3:38): MP3
- fondness of particular words (3:18): MP3
- commenting on teaching poetry (1:19): MP3
- John Ashbery reading "And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name" (1:54): MP3
- John Ashbery reading "What Is Poetry" (0:46): MP3
- Barbara Guest reading "June" (1:04): MP3
- Barbara Guest reading "Passage (for John Coltrane)" [CP, p. 130] (1:33): MP3
: text
- John Ashbery reading from "Three Poems" (1:22): MP3
- breaking down the division between ideas and words (4:19): MP3
- starting with a title and theme v. letting the poem develop as it comes along (4:30): MP3
- closing comments (1:28): MP3
Complete program (28:52): MP3
Complete recording (1:01:59); MP3
- The Blue Stairs (2:33): MP3
- Turkey Villas (2:41): MP3
- A Reason (0:48): MP3
- Walking Buddha (1:21): MP3
- Barrels (1:21): MP3
- East of Omsk (1:16): MP3
- Clouds Near the Window (1:48): MP3
- A Way of Being (2:06): MP3
- Four Moroccan Studies (2:08): MP3
- Parade's End (0:52): MP3
- Fan Poems (3:16): MP3
- Saving Tallow (1:59): MP3
- Colonial Hours (2:29): MP3
- 20 (1:16): MP3
- Direction (1:43): MP3
- Passage (1:18): MP3
- See Song (0:24): MP3
- Days (1:16): MP3
- 3 AM (1:04): MP3
- Eating Chocolate Ice Cream: Reading Mayakovsky (2:25): MP3
- Roses (1:30): MP3
- Carmen (1:45): MP3
- Olivetti Ode (0:57): MP3
- On a Chinese Vase (2:26): MP3
- The Flaking Ceiling (0:29): MP3
- The Watering Can (1:57): MP3
- A Handbook of Surfing (12:21): MP3
Recording courtesy of Library of Congress
"Roses" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 24.
Complete recording (1:00:04); MP3
- The Location of Things (2:46): MP3
- April (1:27): MP3
- Piazzas (2:23): MP3
- In the Middle of the Easel (1:28): MP3
- Windy Afternoon (1:10): MP3
- All Grey-haired, My Sisters (3:33): MP3
- Russians at the Beach (1:14): MP3
- The Hero Leaves His Ship (2:18): MP3
- Birthday (0:49): MP3
- On the Way to Dumbarton Oaks (1:19): MP3
- Les Realites (1:29): MP3
- The Wandering Musicians by Manet (1:45): MP3
- Poème Classique (0:47): MP3
- Cape Canaveral (1:07): MP3
- Sunday Evening (1:37): MP3
- The Crisis (1:30): MP3
- Sadness (1:16): MP3
- Upside Down (0:41): MP3
- History (1:03): MP3
- Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher (1:16): MP3
- Jaffa Juice (3:21): MP3
- Lights of My Eyes (0:35): MP3
- In Dock (1:22): MP3
- Santa Fe Trail (1:48): MP3
- West 64th Street (1:12): MP3
- Safe Flights (1:35): MP3
- The Time of Day (1:11): MP3
- Heroic Stages (2:10): MP3
- Belgravia (2:18): MP3
- The Crisis (2) (1:06): MP3
- The Past of a Poem (1:09): MP3
- Snow Angel (0:46): MP3
- Dido to Aeneas (1:32): MP3
- Atalanta in Arcadia (1:39): MP3
- Green Awnings (1:43): MP3
- From Eyes Blue and Cold (0:59): MP3
- Palm Trees (0:45): MP3
Recording courtesy of Library of Congress
Complete program (1:02:12): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, NY
- Complete recording (7:39): MP3
Also of Interest
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All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-2009 the estate of Barbara Guest.
Used with permission of Barbara Guest. Distributed by PennSound.
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