The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest [Paperback]

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.The lifework of a preeminent New York School poetIntroduction: Fair Realist - Peter Gizzi
Timeline
Works by Barbara Guest
Notes and AcknowledgmentsTHE LOCATION OF THINGSThe Location of Things
Piazzas
All Grey-Haired My Sisters
Windy Afternoon
Russians at the Beach
The Hero Leaves His Ship
Les Réalités
In the Middle of the Easel
On the Way to Dumbarton Oaks
Cape Canaveral
Sunday Evening
Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher
The Crisis
Upside Down
Seeing You Off
Safe Flights
Sadness
Jaffa Juce
In Dock
People in Wartime
Landing
History
Oriental Movie
The Crisis
West Sixty-Fourth Street
The Time of Day
Heroic Stages
In America, the Seasons
Belgravia
In the Alps
The Past of a PoemARCHAICSAtalanta in Arcadia
“From Eyes Blue and Cold”
Dido to Aeneas
Green Awnings