Barbara Guest

Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson (6 September 1920 – 15 February 2006) was an American poet and critic most often associated with the New York School.

Born in Wilmington, North Carolina and raised in California, Guest earned a B.A. in General Curriculum-Humanities in 1943 at UC Berkeley. She spent years in New York City where she became involved with the New York School Poets. She was also well-known for her book on the poet H.D., Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World (1984). In 1999, she was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America.

Publications

 * The Location of Things (Tibor de Nagy, 1960)
 * Poems: The Location of Things, Archaics, The Open Skies (Doubleday & Company, 1962)
 * The Open Skies (1962)
 * The Blue Stairs (Corinth Books, 1968)
 * Moscow Mansions (Viking, 1973)
 * The Countess from Minneapolis (Burning Deck Press, 1976)
 * Seeking Air (Black Sparrow, 1977; reprint, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1997)
 * The Türler Losses (Montréal: Mansfield Book Mart, 1979)
 * Biography (Burning Deck, 1980)
 * Quilts (Vehicle Edition, 1981)
 * Herself Defined: The Poet H. D. and Her World (Doubleday & Company, 1984)
 * Fair Realism (Sun & Moon Press, 1989)
 * Musicality (1988)
 * Defensive Rapture (Sun & Moon Press, 1993)
 * Selected Poems (Sun & Moon Press, 1995)
 * Quill Solitary, Apparition (The Post-Apollo Press, 1996)
 * Seeking Air (Sun & Moon Press, 1997)
 * Etruscan Reader VI (with Robin Blaser and Lee Harwood) (1998)
 * Rocks on a Platter (Wesleyan, 1999)
 * If So, Tell Me (Reality Street Editions, UK, 1999)
 * The Confetti Trees (Sun & Moon, 1999)
 * Symbiosis (Berkeley: Kelsey Street Press, 2000)
 * Miniatures and Other Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2002)
 * Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writing (Kelsey Street Press, 2003)
 * Durer in the Window: Reflexions on Art (Roof Books, 2003)
 * The Red Gaze (Wesleyan University Press, 2005)
 * Fallschirme, Gebliebter. Ausgewählte Gedichte (German, Bilingual Edition, luxbooks, 2008)
 * The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008)