The Red Gaze (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Guest, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819567507 ISBN 13: 9780819567505

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2005

Synopsis

The Red Gaze is one long poem divided into smaller poems on imagination and time, beginning with "Nostalgia" and ending with "Supposition." Within the quietude of these poems, a gentle music unfurls; precise and generous. The idea of imagination propels The Red Gaze; references and allusions to art, literature, and history create what has become a signature of Barbara Guest's work--the poem as the event itself. There is something very immediate, alive, and mysterious about these poems. Reading, we inhabit the art--for a brief time suspended in its vision. Over the past decade, Guest has increasingly come to be seen as a major force in innovative poetics. These new poems are delicate, rarified, and unshakable.

About this title

From the Publisher:

6 1/4 x 8 1/4 trim.

About the Author:

BARBARA GUEST has published 28 volumes (23 of poetry) and has earned many awards, including the Robert Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Society of America, the Longwood Award, the Lawrence Lipton Award for Literature, and the Columbia Book Award. She lives in Berkeley, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0819567507
• ISBN 13: 9780819567505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 68