Typescript of two early poems by Barbara Guest

'Escape' and 'The Inhabitants'

Barbara Guest

For transcriptions of these poems, please visit “Three Poems by Barbara Guest.”

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LINEbreak: Barbara Guest in conversation with Charles Bernstein
Three poems by Barbara Guest

June 15, 2011

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About this feature

Curated by Charles Bernstein to accompany the 2011 publication of his 1995 LINEbreak interview with the poet at Jacket2, this collection brings together two early Barbara Guest poems, written around 1945, as well as “Multiplicity,” published just once previously in The Iowa Review and read by Guest during the 1995 interview.

Preface

Charles Bernstein

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Erica Kaufman discussed Guest's The Location of Things as part of the feature, “Poetry in 1960, a Symposium,” and Jacket editor John Tranter catalogued the poet’s appearances in the magazine as part of his 2012 commentary series, “Under the Horizon.” Guest’s poem “Roses” was discussed in PoemTalk podcast #24, which you can find on PennSound’s Barbara Guest author page, alongside many readings, interviews, and talks from 1977 to 2004, as well as a 2006 tribute to the poet at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project and a pair of 2007 interviews with Hadley Guest about her mother.

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Barbara Guest reads from 'The Red Gaze'

Barbara Guest and Kathleen Fraser in conversation with Elisabeth Frost and Cynthia Hogue

LINEbreak: Barbara Guest in conversation with Charles Bernstein

Three poems by Barbara Guest

Typescript of two early poems by Barbara Guest

EcoSomatics archive

Field notes from the 2020 EcoSomatics Symposium

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren

Christina Vega-Westhoff

Syrus Marcus Ware

moira williams

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An assemblage montaged by Petra Kuppers, with Syrus Marcus Ware, Naomi Ortiz, Stephanie Heit, Lori Landau, Carolyn Roy, Christina Vega-Westhoff, Michele Minnick, Denise Leto, moira williams, Catherine Fairfield, andrea haenggi and bull thistle leaf, DJ Lee, Megan Kaminski, Charli Brissey, Bronwyn Preece, Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Rania Lee Khalil, and Madeline Kerslake.

Introduction by Petra Kuppers

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What war, huh?

Subjection in/as dissolution in Roger Santiváñez’s poetics, a translator’s note

Judah Rubin

Panel of winners of el Premio Libro de Poesía Breve, 2011. Image from Hipocampo Editores, via <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Premio_de_Poes%C3%ADa_Breve_de_Hipocampo_Editores.jpg>Wikimedia Commons</a>. — Panel of winners of el Premio Libro de Poesía Breve, 2011. Image from Hipocampo Editores, via Wikimedia Commons.

By the time Roger Santiváñez published his chapbook Symbol, which is often thought of as marking a turn in his writing toward a neobaroque poetics post-1991, he had come to live in the United States, where he has resided since.

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