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The collected poems of Barbara Guest

Title
The collected poems of Barbara Guest [electronic resource] / Barbara Guest ; edited by Hadley Haden Guest.
Author
Guest, Barbara.
Publication
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
Guest, Hadley Haden.
Description
1 online resource (xxxi, 525 p.) : ill.
Summary
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Wesleyan poetry
Uniform Title
  • Poems (Online)
  • Wesleyan poetry.
Alternative Title
Poems (Online)
Subject
Poetry, Modern
Note
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography (note)
  • "Works by Barbara Guest": p. xxvii-xxix.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
LCCN
2008020147
OCLC
ssj0001081668
Author
Guest, Barbara.
Title
The collected poems of Barbara Guest [electronic resource] / Barbara Guest ; edited by Hadley Haden Guest.
Imprint
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2008.
Series
Wesleyan poetry
Wesleyan poetry.
Bibliography
"Works by Barbara Guest": p. xxvii-xxix.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Guest, Hadley Haden.
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