The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (Wesleyan , Guest, Gizzi, Guest*.

Name: The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (Wesleyan , Guest, Gizzi, Guest*.
Brand: Wesleyan University Press

Wesleyan University Press

The Collected Poems of Barbara GuestAuthor(s): Barbara Guest, Hadley Guest, Peter Gizzi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wesleyan University Press, United States\nImprint: Wesleyan University Press\nISBN-13: 9780819567772, 978-0819567772\nSynopsis\nOne of the most notable members of the New York Schooland its best-known womanBarbara Guest began writing poetry in the 1950s in company that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank OHara, and James Schuyler. And from the beginning, her practice placed her at the vanguard of American writing. Guests 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 Guests remarkable visionary work. This Collected Poems moves from her early New York School years through her more abstract lat.