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The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
Wesleyan Poetry
Early photo of Barbara Guest on a train © Fred W. McDarrah
THE
COLLECTED POEMS
OF
BARBARA GUEST
Barbara Guest
Edited by Hadley Haden Guest
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown, Connecticut
Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459
www.wesleyan.edu/wespress © 2008 by the Estate of Barbara Guest Introduction copyright © Peter Gizzi, 2008 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Guest, Barbara.
[Poems]
The collected poems of Barbara Guest / Barbara Guest.
p. cm. — (Wesleyan poetry)
Includes index.
ISBN 978–0–8195–6860–1 (cloth : alk. paper)
I. Title
PS3513.U44 2008
811′.54—dc22 2008020147
“Cover illustration by Barbara Guest. Wheel, collage, 1951, 18 x 12.”
Photography (c) Thomas Bachand 2007.
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Publication supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. |
Contents
Introduction: Fair Realist by Peter Gizzi xvii
Notes and Acknowledgments xxxi
The Location of Things • Archaics • The Open Skies (1962)
On the Way to Dumbarton Oaks 12