Miniatures and Other Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Guest, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819565962 ISBN 13: 9780819565969

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 trim.

About the Author:

Barbara Guest has published 26 volumes of poetry, as well as a novel entitled Seeking Air (1996) and the biography Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World (1984). She has earned many awards, including the 1999 Robert Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Society of America.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0819565962
• ISBN 13: 9780819565969
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64