The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Guest, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0819568600 / ISBN 13: 9780819568601

Published by Wesleyan University Press (CT), 2008

About this Item

Wesleyan University Press (CT) 2008 First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good + DJ with a 3/4 inch closed tear near the head of the spine. 525 pages.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1762007529053

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press (CT)
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819568600
• ISBN 13: 9780819568601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 4.445W x 16.51H x 24.13D centimeters 4.445 centimeters width by 16.51 centimeters height by 24.13 centimeters depth
• Weight: 907 grams

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Synopsis

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 Tames 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. The 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.

About the Author

BARBARA GUEST (1920-2006) published over twenty volumes of poetry, and earned awards including the Robert Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Society of America. HADLEY GUEST is Barbara Guest's daughter. She lives in Berkeley, California. PETER GIZZI is the author of four books of poetry, including The Outernationale (2007). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.