Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest, born Barbara Ann Pinson (September 6, 1920 – February 15, 2006), was an American poet and prose writer.
Barbara Guest | |
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 Guest during the video taping of "Add-Verse", 2003 | |
| Born | 6 September 1920 Wilmington, North Carolina, United States |
| Died | 15 February 2006 (aged 85) Berkeley, California, United States |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Genre | Poetry, prose |
| Literary movement | New York School |
| Notable works | "Herself Defined", "Fair Realism", "Forces of Imagination" |
| Notable awards | Robert Frost Medal (1999) |
Guest was part of the first generation New York School of poets who often used words as painters use paint.[1] She wrote more than 20 books of poetry. She also wrote a novel, art criticism, essays, and plays.
Guest was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and raised in California. She went to college at UCLA and got a B.A. in 1943 from UC Berkeley. She worked in the editor's office at ARTnews magazine from 1951-1959.[2]
In 1999, she was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America.[3] She was also well known for her biography of the poet H.D., Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World.
Books
- The Location of Things (1960)
- Poems: The Location of Things, Archaics, The Open Skies (1962)
- The Open Skies (1962)
- The Blue Stairs (1968)
- I Ching, with lithographs by Sheila Isham (1969).
- Moscow Mansions (1973)
- The Countess from Minneapolis (1976)
- Seeking Air (1977; 1997; 2021)
- The Türler Losses (1979)
- Biography (1980)
- Quilts (1981)
- Herself Defined: The Poet H. D. and Her World (1984)
- Musicality, with June Felter (1988)
- Fair Realism (1989)
- Defensive Rapture (1993)
- The Altos, with artist Richard Tuttle (1993)
- Selected Poems (1995)
- Stripped Tales, featuring art by Anne Dunn (1995)
- Quill Solitary, Apparition (1996)
- Seeking Air (1997)
- Etruscan Reader VI (with Robin Blaser and Lee Harwood) (1998)
- Outside of This, That is (1999)
- Strings, with artist Ann Slacik (1999)
- The Luminous, with artist Jane Moorman (1999)
- Rocks on a Platter (1999)
- If So, Tell Me (1999)
- The Confetti Trees (1999)
- Symbiosis, with artist Laurie Reid (2000)
- Miniatures and Other Poems (2002)
- Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writing (2003)
- Durer in the Window: Reflexions on Art (2003)
- The Red Gaze (2005)
- Fallschirme, Gebliebter. Ausgewählte Gedichte (2008)
- The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (2008)
References
- ↑ Fox, Margalit (2006-03-04). "Barbara Guest, Pioneering Poet of the New York School, Is Dead at 85" (in en-US). The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/books/barbara-guest-pioneering-poet-of-the-new-york-school-is-dead-at-85.html. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
- ↑ Noel-Tod, Jeremy (2013). "Guest, Barbara". Oxford Reference - The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ↑ "Award Winners". Poetry Society of America. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
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