Barbara Guest

Barbara Guest ( born September 6, 1920 in North Carolina; † 15 February 2006; born Barbara Ann Pinson ) was an American poet, writer and art critic who is often associated with the New York School.

She was born in North Carolina and grew up in California. Guest graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and graduated there in 1943 with a BA from. She lived a long time in New York, where she belonged to Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch to the poets of the New York School. It is also known as the author of a biography of the poet HD, Herself Defined: The Poet HD and Her World ( 1984). She was awarded by the Poetry Society of America with the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 1999. Most recently, she lived again in Berkeley, where she died in 2006.

Bibliography / Works

  • 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 Books, 1977 reprint: Sun & Moon Press, 1997 )
  • The Türler Losses (Montréal: Mansfield Book Mart, 1979)
  • Biography ( Burning Deck, 1980)
  • Quilts (Vehicle Edition, 1981)
  • Herself Defined: The Poet HD 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 )
  • Rocks on a Platter ( Wesleyan University Press, 1999)
  • If So, Tell Me ( Reality Street Editions, UK, 1999)
  • The Confetti Trees (Sun & Moon, 1999)
  • Symbiosis ( Kelsey Street Press, 2000)
  • Miniatures and Other Poems ( Wesleyan University Press, 2002) ISBN 9780819565969
  • Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writing ( Kelsey Street Press, 2003) ISBN 9780932716613
  • The Red Gaze ( Wesleyan University Press, 2005) ISBN 9780819567505
  • The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest ( Wesleyan University Press, 2008) ISBN 9780819568601

Translations

Parachutes Lover: Selected Poems. Bilingual ( luxbooks, Wiesbaden, 2008) ISBN 9783939557241

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