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Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest, most recently known for her biography of H.D., Herself Defined, the Poet H.D. and Her World (Doubleday & Co., 1984), is the author of seven books of poems: The Location of Things, 1960; The Blue Stairs, 1968; Moscow Mansions, 1973; The Countess from Minneapolis, 1976; The Türler Losses, 1979; and Biography, 1980. Her innovative novel, Seeking Air (Black Sparrow Press, 1978), is a must for writers interested in new structural possibilities for prose and poem forms. As well as writing art criticism, Guest has often collaborated with painters on poem-lithographs and poetry-paintings. The Türler Losses was originally printed as No.5 in the M.B.M. Monograph Series, Montreal. WORKING NOTES FROM BARBARA GUEST: From Wallace Stevens' "finikin thing of air", the poem gathers itself (becomes embodied) the way a narrative diffuses and is sustained by imagistic moments transcending their own context as they echo and foreshadow other moments in the poem, deploying their own patterns and lyric arrangements. go to this issue's table of contents
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