Meditations : the assorted prose of Barbara Guest /
"A collection of Barbara Guest's essays, lectures, reviews, and profiles of poets and artists, as well as forms of fiction, biography, poetic prose, drama, comics, and other mixed-genre pieces"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Middletown, Connecticut :
Wesleyan University Press,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "A collection of Barbara Guest's essays, lectures, reviews, and profiles of poets and artists, as well as forms of fiction, biography, poetic prose, drama, comics, and other mixed-genre pieces"-- "Meditiations gathers together in one volume for the first time an extensive collection of prose work of Barbara Guest (1920-2006), one of the major voices of twentieth-century American literature. Known primarily as a poet, Guest worked in many styles, all represented herein: essays, lectures, art criticism, literary and art reviews as well as forms of fiction, biography, poetic prose, drama, comics, and mixed-genre pieces. This collection of the poet's prose illuminates Guest's singular genius, highlighting her structural awareness of language and placing her within the vanguard of American poetry. Lyrical and intellectually soaring, this collection is a treasure of insights into the relationship between language, image, and imagination. Joseph Shafer's introduction provides a meaningful context for sixty years' worth of critical and creative prose by one of America's finest poets." |
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| Item Description: | Cover art : Barbara Guest and Mary Abbott, "Wave" 1961 by Gary Mamay. |
| Physical Description: | xxix, 320 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780819501738 0819501735 |