Barbara Guest
(1920–)
American poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, biographer, editor, and art critic.
Like—but not with—the Beat writers, Guest performed her works at the Livi...
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Long active on the New York art scene (she helped edit Art News from 1951 to 1954), Barbara Guest is "commonly considered the finest fruit of the New York school of poets," according to critic Alicia ...
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Selected Poems, a lavish volume published in 1995 by Sun and Moon Press, has served to draw much deserved attention to the demanding, versatile, and prolific contributions to American poetry of Barbar...
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