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- Wild Gardens Overlooked by Nig... Wild gardens ...
- A Reason That is why I am here not among the ibises. ...
- Eating Chocolate Ice Cream: Re...
- Red Lilies Someone has remembered to dry the dishes; they ...
- Sound and Structure On this dry prepared path walk heavy ...
- Finnish Opera Grass grew long in the story. Pieces clung...
- 20 Sleep is 20 remembering ...
Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson (September 6, 1920 – February 15, 2006) was an American poet and prose stylist. Guest first gained recognition as a member of the first generation New York School of poetry. Guest wrote more than 15 books of poetry spanning sixty years of writing. In 1999, she was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America. Guest also wrote art criticism, essays, and plays. Her collages appeared on the covers of several of her books of poetry. She was also well known for her biography of the poet H.D., Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World (1984).
Born in Wilmington, North Carolina and raised in California, Guest attended... more »
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Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights
Wild gardens overlooked by night lights. Parking
lot trucks overlooked by night lights. Buildings
with their escapes overlooked by lights.
They urge me to seek here on the heights
amid the electrical lighting that self who exists,
who witnesses light and fears its expunging,
I take from my wall the landscape with its water
of blue color, its gentle expression of rose,
pink, the sunset reaches outward in strokes as the west wind
rises, the sun sinks and color flees the delicate
skies it inherited,
I place there a scene from 'The Tale of ...
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