Barbara Guest

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Barbara Guest
Born	6 September 1920
Died	15 February 2006
Occupation	American poet

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 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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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)