The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest

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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 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 Guest's remarkable visionary work. This Collected Poems moves from her early New York School years through her more abstract later work, including some final poems never before published. Switching effortlessly from the real to the dreamlike, the observed to the imagined, this is poetry both gentle and piercing―seemingly simple, but truly and beautifully dislocating. Cover The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest Title Copyright Contents Introduction: Fair Realist by Peter Gizzi Timeline Works by Barbara Guest Notes and Acknowledgments The Location of Things • Archaics • The Open Skies (1962) The Location of Things Piazzas All Grey-haired My Sisters Windy Afternoon Russians at the Beach The Hero Leaves His Ship Les Réalités 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 Herioc 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 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 20 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) 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 Theater 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 Türler Losses (1979) The Türler Losses Biography (1980) One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Quilts (1980) Quilts Musicality (1988) Musicality 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 Mörike The Rose Marble Table Shuffling Light The Screen of Distance Heavy Violets The Farewell Stairway 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) I 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) structured immediacy lottery can guess the moment a noun settles into space germination begins undermining opposing ideas 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 annunziare! 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 Guerrilla Reporters Confucius Color Nuns Corelli The Vanished Library “Lonely Mess” Lubitsch Noise Preparedness “Moments Before . . ." The Dream Motion Picture; a proposal for animation Nemesis 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: Notes on Literature (1999) I “Ideas. As they find themselves . . ." II “And the words linger, deciding which direction to take . . ." III “Intimacy of tone . . ." IV “Without shyness or formality . . ." Symbiosis (2000) Symbiosis Originally appeared with artwork Miniatures 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 Dürer in the Window, Reflexions on Art (2003) Lunch at Helen Frankenthaler’s On a Painting by Hayden Stubbing Homage The Red Gaze (2005) 1 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 2 The Red Gaze A Dawn Walk No Longer Strangers Hans Hofmann Vignettes Echoes Instructions Composition Supposition New Poems Elf Storytelling Constable’s Method, Brightening Near the Bridge Beginning of Rain Notes Shelley in the Navy-Colored Chair Hotel Comfort Index