The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest

by Barbara Guest

Book Overview

The lifework of a preeminent New York School poet

Winner of the SFSU Poetry Center Book Award (2010)

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 James Schuyler. And from the beginning, her practice placed her at the vanguard of American writing. Guest's poetry, saturated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819567779
• ISBN13: 9780819567772
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up