Cultural Writing. From one of our most esteemed contemporary poets, a collection of essays about reading and poetics, written over many decades, and touching on many centuries. "We expect poets to give a first-hand account of what poetry is. But some poets, when they write criticism, produce a kind of prose that is itself on the verge of being poetry. Valery, Stevens and Marianne Moore belong to this "visionary company." And so does Barbara Guest, whose writings on poetry, collected here, are among the most inspiring works of their kind. It is a deep pleasure to know that such writing can still exist" --John Ashbery.

Product Description: Dawn is "the red gaze." It unburdens itself through poetry and its colors.

Barbara Guest began writing in the 1950s, a member of the New York School of Poets. She embraces the experiments of Modernism and uses the abstract qualities in words against their sensuousness. Miniatures and Other Poems is a collection of compressed and allusive poems, organized in three series: Miniatures, Pathos and Blurred Edge. Each "miniature" reduces a poem to its most intimate meaning, but this is not to suggest that the significance of the poem is small. Just as little pieces of music blossom into large chords, so these small poems blossom with large intimations.

Product Description: Poetry. Art. Collectors and literature lovers alike will want to own a copy of this collaboration between Barbara Guest (poet) and Laurie Reid (artist). Reid's spidery watercolor lines mingle with the letterpress text of one of America's premier writers...read more

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Product Description: Prose. "When I was a girl in Los Angles," Barbara Guest writes, "the city became a haven for emigres of World War II. People of the arts and film, experts in languages, arrived. The brothers Mann, the composers Mahler and Schoenberg...read more

Product Description: A meditation on the difficulty of assemblage and a reflection on the poetic process. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Prose. "When I was a girl in Los Angles," Barbara Guest writes, "the city became a haven for emigres of World War II. People of the arts and film, experts in languages, arrived. The brothers Mann, the composers Mahler and Schoenberg...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Barbara Guest's poetry and her novel, SEEKING AIR, have been fundamental to my work and life for twenty years. Of late, her work increases in acceleration. QUILL, SOLITARY APPARITION is of perfect weight. The whole is on a blade...read more

Product Description: Book by Guest, Barbara

Product Description: AUTHOR OF THE RECENTLY ACCLAIMED SELECTED POEMS, DEFENSIVE RAPTURE, AND FAIR REALISM (ALL SUN & MOON PRESS), GUEST IS ONE OF THE MAJOR FIGURES OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE!

A collection of the poets works spanning her forty year career demonstrates how the writer has evolved to incorporate poetic trends and movements of the times

Product Description: Book by Guest, Barbara

Product Description: Poetry. " In this inspired collaboration all id fugitive, perishable, mortal - drawing one into the mind of pure longing as natural and imagined landscapes extend each other's tenuous fictions"-Kathleen Fraser.