The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest Book

Introduction: Fair Realist - Peter Gizzi Timeline Works by Barbara Guest Notes and Acknowledgments THE LOCATION OF THINGS 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 The Crisis 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 Lights of My Eyes 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)
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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
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12: Prairie Houses
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15: At the Guthrie Theatre
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17: Persians in Minneapolis
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19: (Scop - A Poet) Widsith
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35: Crocus Hill
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37: Activities
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39: June
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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 Colonial Hours 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)
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Nostalgia 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
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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 Storytelling Elf Hotel Comfort