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    The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
    The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
    The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
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    The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest

    By Barbara Guest and Hadley Guest

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    Winner of the SFSU Poetry Center Book Award (2010)

    One of the most notable members of the New York School—and its best-known woman—Barbara Guest began writing poetry in the 1950s in company that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. And from the beginning, her practice placed her at the vanguard of American writing. Guest's poetry, saturated in the visual arts, extended the formal experiments of modernism, and played the abstract qualities of language against its sensuousness and materiality. Now, for the first time, all of her published poems have been brought together in one volume, offering readers and scholars unprecedented access to Guest's remarkable visionary work. This Collected Poems moves from her early New York School years through her more abstract later work, including some final poems never before published. Switching effortlessly from the real to the dreamlike, the observed to the imagined, this is poetry both gentle and piercing—seemingly simple, but truly and beautifully dislocating.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWesleyan University Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9780819574510
    The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
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    Barbara Guest

    Barbara Guest (1920–2006) published over twenty volumes of poetry, and earned awards including the Robert Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Society of America.

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