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The collected poems of Barbara Guest / Barbara Guest ; edited by Hadley Haden Guest.

PS3513 .U44 2008

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Guest, Barbara.
Contributor:: Guest, Hadley Haden.
Series:: Wesleyan poetry
Standardized Title:: Poems
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Poetry, Modern--20th century.; Poetry, Modern.
Physical Description:: xxxi, 525 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2008]
Contents:: Timeline; Works by Barbara Guest; Notes and Acknowledgments; The Location of Things; Piazzas; All Grey-Haired My Sisters; Windy Afternoon; Russians at the Beach; The Hero Leaves His Ship; Les Realites; In the Middle of the Easel; On the Way to Dumbarton Oaks; Cape Canaveral; Sunday Evening; Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher; The Crisis; Upside Down; Seeing You Off; Safe Flights; Sadness; Jaffa Juce; In Dock; People in Wartime; Landing; History; Oriental Movie; West Sixty-Fourth Street; The Time of Day; Heroic Stages; In America, the Seasons; Belgravia; In the Alps; The Past of a Poem; Archaics; Atalanta in Arcadia; "From Eyes Blue and Cold"; Dido to Aeneas; Green Awnings; Palm Trees; In the Campagna; "Who will accept our offering at this end of autumn?"; The Open Skies (1962); The Voice Tree; Lights of My Eyes; Snow Angel; Santa Fe Trail; Nocturne; The First of May; Dardanella; The Brown Studio; All Elegies are Black and White; The Open Skies; Hurricane; His Jungle; Timor Mortis, Florida; Sand; Wave; Geography; The Blue Stairs (1968); The Blue Stairs; Turkey Villas; Walking Buddha; Colonial Hours; Saving Tallow; The Return of the Muses; A Reason; Direction; Barrels; East of Omsk; Parade's End; Clouds Near the Windmill; Fan Poems; A Way of Being; Four Moroccan Studies; A Handbook of Surfing; I Ching (1969); I Ching; Moscow Mansions (1973); Red Lilies; Illyria; Egypt; Nebraska; On Mt. Snowdon; Rosy; Ensconcements; Even Ovid; The Interruptions; Moscow Mansions 1; Moscow Mansions 2; Knight of the Swan; Carmen; Museum; Byron's Signatories; The Poetess; Losing People; The Poem Lying Down; Sassafras; Circassians; Another July; Drawing a Blank; Stupid; Physical Pain; Roses; Passage; Hohenzollern; The Stragglers; Olivetti ode; On the verge of the path; Gravel; Bicycling; Shifting the Iris; Green Revolutions; Poem; Evening; The Old Silk Road; Now; The Countess From Minneapolis (1976); 1; 2; 3 50 Floors; 4 Thinking of you Prokofief; 5 River Road Studio; 6 Portrait of Mary Rood; 7 Eating Lake Superior Cisco Smoked Fish; 8 Musings on the Mississippi; 9 Legends; 10; 11; 12 Prairie Houses; 13; 14; 15 At the Guthrie Theatre; 16; 17 Persians in Minneapolis; 18; 19 (Scop - A Poet) Widsith; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32; 33; 34; 35 Crocus Hill; 36; 37 Activities; 38; 39 June; 40; 41; 42 Amaryllis; The Tuerler Losses (1979); Biography (1980); One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six; Seven; Eight; Nine; Quilts (1980); Quilts; Musicality (1988); Originally with drawings by June Felter; Fair Realism (1989); Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights; La Noche Entra en Calor; The View from Kandinsky's Window; The Thread; Ilex; Spring Vine; Dora Maar; An Emphasis Falls on Reality; Valuable Moerike; The Rose Marble Table; Shuffling Light; The Screen of Distance; Heavy Violets; The Farewell Stairway (after Balla); Words; Twilight Polka Dots; The Nude; Western Additives; In Medieval Hollow; Bleat; Ropes Sway/Country Cousins; Savannahs; The Cradle of Culture; Lawn Bumps; Tessera; Defensive Rapture (1993); Paulownia; Dove; Expectation; Geese Blood; Fleet of White; Atmospheres; The Surface as Object; II.; Defensive Rapture; Beautiful/Evil; Borrowed Mirror, Filmic Rise; Restlessness; Chalk; III.; Borderlands; Dissonance Royal Traveller; The Advance of the Grizzly; The Glass Mountain; Otranto; Winter Horses; IV.; The Altos; Stripped Tales (1995) with Artist Anne Dunn; structured / immediacy; / lottery can guess; the moment / a noun / settles into space; / germination begins; undermining /; opposing ides /; / which-away; philosophy / in Norway; moody / adjectivalness; need / to identify; odd / pagination; property / mix-up; / selfdom; a venetian / pallor; ice / buttons; history / ambushed; klebnikov lootage /; useful / techniques; loose grams / of nutmeg; typestry /; ghost / aboard; the French woman / beckoned; moment / of ingenuity; antiquity /; what we say /; empathetic / chimes; law / of the ether; Bergson's Law /; magicked /; the position / anarchical; photo / mirage; Quill, Solitary Apparition (1996); Finally, to the Italian Girl; Garment; Fell, Darkly; Pallor; Leaving Modernity; Cold and its Demeanour; Quill, Solitary Apparition; If So, Tell Me (1999); Valorous Vine; Storytelling; Outside of This, That Is; In Slow Motion; Doubleness; Dora Films; Lily; The poetry Meter; The Lull; Russet Flame; Unusual Figures; If So, Tell me; The Luminous; Strings; Deception; Athletic Writing; Faery Land; The Paris Lectures; The Green Fly; Confession of My Images; Effervescence; The Strum; Music History; Sideways; The Confetti Trees (1999); Overboard; The Tear; The Cough; Trousers for Extras; Nostalgia; The Guerilla Reporters; Confucious; Color; Nuns; Corelli; The Vanished Library; "Lonely Mess"; Lubitsch; Noise; Preparedness; "Moments Before..."; The Dream Motion Picture; A Proposal for Animation; Nemesia; The Aromas; Falling in Love; Details; The Confetti Trees; Romance; No Words; Screening Room Notes; The Minus Ones; Scenario-iste; Celluloid; Ars, Longa; Metropolis; Enchantment; Simultaneity; The Spell of Beauty; The Utmost Unreality; Disappearance; Rocks On a Platter (1999); "Ideas. As they find themselves..."; "And the words linger, deciding which direction to take..."; "Intimacy of tone..."; "Without shyness or formality..."; Symbiosis (2000); Symbiosis; Originally appeared with artwork by Laurie Reid; Minatures and Other Poems (2002); Miniatures; Shabby Boot; Bird of Art; Spirit Tree; Turret; Negative Possibility; Camisole; Tiny Foreign Tears; Transcription; Lost Speech; First Prints; Yesterday; Pilgrimage; Finnish Opera; Photographs; Petticoat; Blue; Arthur; Autobiography; Noisetone; Fourteenth of July; Chekhovania; Coal; Sound and Structure; Musicianship; Pathos; Blurred Edge; Durer in the Window, Reflexions on Art (2003); Poetry; Lunch at Helen Frankenthaler's; On a Painting by Hayden Stubbing; Homage; The Red Gaze (2005); An Afternoon in Jeopardy; Imagined Room; Loneliness; A Different Honey; A Short Narrative; Freedom; Alteration; A Burst of Leaves; The Next Floor; Roman Stripes; The Trickster; The Hungry Knight; The Past; Modernism; Green Numbers; Stair of Our Youth; A Noise of Return; Freed Color; The Gold Tap; Minimal Sound; The Brown Vest 2; The Red Gaze; A Dawn Walk; No Longer Strangers; Hans Hofmann; Vignettes; Echoes; Instructions; Composition; Supposition; Last Poems; In the Hotel; Constable's Method Brightening Near the Bridge; Beginning of Rain Notes; Shelley in the Navy-Colored Chair; Elf; Hotel Comfort.
Notes:: Includes index.; "Works by Barbara Guest": pages xxvii-xxix.
ISBN:: 9780819568601; 0819568600
OCLC:: 185697870

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