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Barbara Guest

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Bābara Gesuto

Aliases: Barbara Ann Pinson

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1920-09-06 （Wilmington, North Carolina）
Died
2006-02-15 age 85
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
California

Career

Occupations
poet, prose stylist, art critic
Active Years
1943-2006
Affiliations
ARTnews, Poetry Society of America
Influenced By
H.D.
Influenced
New York School poets

Education

University of California, Los Angeles
General Curriculum-Humanities
Country: United States
Attended

Awards

Frost Medal
1999
Organization: Poetry Society of America
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher

1960 Poetry

Poem beginning in the midst of action with oblique perception

imaginationreality

Bibliography

  • The Location of Things (1960)
  • The Countess from Minneapolis (1976)
  • Rocks on a Platter (1999)
  • The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (2008)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
abstractvivid languageintellectual
Recurring Motifs
relations of subjects and objectsreality and imagination

Legacy

Recognized as a first-generation New York School poet, published over 15 poetry books, awarded Frost Medal

Archives

  • Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Quotes

  • The subject matter finds itself...You find the subject as you proceed with (writing) the poem.
    Source: Interview on LINEBreak with Charles Bernstein (1995)
  • Poetry is where the concrete object is bathed in a new atmosphere lifted out of itself to become a fiction.
    Source: Lecture titled "How I Got Out of Poetry and into Prose" (1992)