Erscheint: Mai 2027
Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Selected Poems of Barbara Guest
Verlag:
Wesleyan University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35149125
EAN: 9780819502933
Erscheint: Mai 2027
Versand: Kostenlos
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Beschreibung
The essential poems of Barbara Guest. Barbara Guest (1920-2006) was one of the most formally inventive poets of postwar America. Moving from the witty, image-driven lyricism of her early years among Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, Guest moved toward an increasingly radical engagement with abstraction, visual art, and the materiality of language on the page. The Selected Poems of Barbara Guest. , edited by Norma Cole and Joseph Shafer, traces the full arc of her invention. Drawing on Guest's entire oeuvre, from The Location of Things. (1960) and Moscow Mansions. (1973) through Fair Realism. (1989), Defensive Rapture. (1993), and the late, increasingly dispersed works Rocks on a Platter. (Wesleyan, 1999) and The Red Gaze. (Wesleyan, 2005), this volume shows a poet of the daring imagination. In her introduction, Elizabeth Willis argues that Guest's lifelong commitment to poetic risk positions her as one of the essential lyric experimentalists of twentieth-century American poetry. Guest continually reinvented what a poem could do. Here, her essential work is gathered in a single volume for a new generation of readers. [Sample Poem]Windy Afternoon. Through the wood on his motorcycle piercing the hawk, the jay the blue-coated policeman Woods, barren woods, as this typewriter without an object or the words that from you fall soundless The sun lowering and the bags of paper on the stoney ledge near the waterfall Voices down the roadway and leaves falling over there a great vacancya huge leftover The quality of the day that has its size in the North and in the South a low sighing that of wings Describe that nude, audacious line most lofty, practiced street you are no longer thirsty turn or go straight.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Barbara Guest
- Joseph Shafer
- Norma Cole
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2027
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 220