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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.

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ť “To speak with Barbara Guest about poetry was always to be in the presence of a fiercely uncompromised vision of the art and its obligations. Her insights continually astonished me. They were beholden to no one. And the work itself, of a lyric intelligence entirely her own. For whatever reasons, and I can sadly imagine many, it hasn't received its full due, but it will. The music insists.”

Michael Palmer

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)

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