Barbara Guest

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Barbara Guest, 2003

Barbara Guest (born September 6, 1920 in North Carolina ; † February 15, 2006 ; born Barbara Ann Pinson ) was an American poet , writer and art critic who is often associated with the New York School .

She was born in North Carolina and raised in California . Guest studied at the University of California at Berkeley , where he graduated with a BA in 1943 . She lived for a long time in New York , where she was one of the poets of the New York School with Frank O'Hara , John Ashbery , James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch . She is also known as the author of a biography of the poet HD , Herself Defined: The Poet HD and Her World (1984). In 1999 she was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America . Most recently she lived in Berkeley again, where she died in 2006.

Bibliography / works

  • The Location of Things (Tibor de Nagy, 1960)
  • Poems: The Location of Things, Archaics, The Open Skies (Doubleday & Company, 1962)
  • The Open Skies (1962)
  • The Blue Stairs (Corinth Books, 1968)
  • Moscow Mansions (Viking, 1973)
  • The Countess from Minneapolis (Burning Deck Press, 1976)
  • Seeking Air (Black Sparrow Books, 1977; reprint: Sun & Moon Press, 1997)
  • The Türler Losses (Montréal: Mansfield Book Mart, 1979)
  • Biography (Burning Deck, 1980)
  • Quilts (Vehicle Edition, 1981)
  • Herself Defined: The Poet HD and Her World (Doubleday & Company, 1984)
  • Fair Realism (Sun & Moon Press, 1989)
  • Musicality (1988)
  • Defensive Rapture (Sun & Moon Press, 1993)
  • Selected Poems (Sun & Moon Press, 1995)
  • Quill, Solitary Apparition (The Post-Apollo Press, 1996)
  • Seeking Air (Sun & Moon Press, 1997)
  • Etruscan Reader VI (with Robin Blaser and Lee Harwood) (1998)
  • Rocks on a Platter (Wesleyan University Press, 1999)
  • If So, Tell Me (Reality Street Editions, UK, 1999)
  • The Confetti Trees (Sun & Moon, 1999)
  • Symbiosis (Kelsey Street Press, 2000)
  • Miniatures and Other Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2002) ISBN 9780819565969
  • Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writing (Kelsey Street Press, 2003) ISBN 9780932716613
  • Durer in the Window: Reflexions on Art (Roof Books, 2003) ISBN 9781931824040
  • The Red Gaze (Wesleyan University Press, 2005) ISBN 9780819567505
  • The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (Wesleyan University Press, 2008) ISBN 9780819568601

Translations

Parachutes Beloved: Selected Poems. Bilingual (luxbooks, Wiesbaden, 2008) ISBN 9783939557241

literature

  • Honrath, Barbara, The New York Poets and the Fine Arts , Würzburg 1994
  • The Scene of My Selves. New Work on New York School Poets , Eds. Terence Diggory and Stephen Paul Miller, Orono, Maine 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Guest, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinson, Barbara Ann (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet , writer, and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2006