Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series. endobj endobj Certainly Guest is one of the most respected and influential contemporary poets in the US. HADLEY GUEST is Barbara Guest's daughter. 205 22 Why at this desk am I listening for the sound of the fall of color, the pitch of the wooden floor and feet going faster? That construction of possibility is part of a poem's purpose, a purpose that might be taken to be political, despite this poet’s resistance to thinking of poetry in such terms. 0000002523 00000 n To remember now that the imagination's at its turning how to recall those Pierrots of darkness (with the half-moon like a yellow leg of a pantaloon) I would see you again (like the purple P of piazza). 0000017551 00000 n The clouds Atlanticking, Canadianing, Alaska snowclouds, tunnel and sleigh, urban and mountain routes! After the interview, start your free trial to get access to this lesson and much more. Parachutes, my love, could carry us higher Than this mid-air in which we tremble, Having exercised our arms in swimming, Now the suspension, you say, Is exquisite. Outside the gods survive.Les Réalités It's raining today and I'm reading about pharmacies in Paris. %PDF-1.3 x��XɎ�F��+���� m�Hop/��}^u���f'@.���F"k}�^�n��?�{�����oN_?��n���������n��m���m�/>���ݿ�D6�.H0��ƅT?�5����͛�U��ի?�67��}�Cc�i�t������ (3�zI��Ň����Bܝ^mn��Q����lzq���8���mw�}s8U��$�p!�p��& j,�`y;{����-� June 2007 Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, Guest does not instruct us directly on how to write a poem: instead, she defines for us what instructions for poem-writing consist of. July 2016 In her writings on poetics, however, the act of creatingthe poem is peculiarly violent. February 2009 Who is commanding, and who is "you"? Pleasurable safety, richness, and otium are often announced in Guest’s poems. The blue, in air dismal to the face further than sand then green rolling its own powder you will provide you stranger The cargo intimate cargo of lashes and backs bent like a crew the miles are vast and the isthmus shows five-toed feet erect thunders all afternoon You have traveled more than this shore where the long bodies wait their thin heads do not understand They are bent the breeze is light as the step of a native is heavy you are tired but you breathe and you eat and you sleep where the stream is narrow where the foam has left off ascending the day meets your borders so easily where you have discovered it.The Hero Leaves His Ship I wonder if this new reality is going to destroy me. Share on Twitter. . These poems unravel before us so that we may revel in them, find for ourselves, if we go unprepared, the dwelling that they beckon us to inhabit. 0000000736 00000 n December 2016 213 0 obj June 2014 "Charles Bernstein"Reading Barbara Guest's Collected Poems is like sitting on the very edge of time, as each poem, each book, seems to surpass its own expectations, foraging and inventing in a ceaseless renovation of poetic energies. The vixen's glare, the tear on the flesh covered continent where the snake withers happily and the nude deer antler glitters, neither shares my rifled ocean growth polar and spare. Two questions I cannot yet answer emerge from this reading of Guest: 1) How might Guest’s figurings of power systems reverberate against our thinking about power relations in the daily world? Poems contain multiple sources of agency, and these sources are in conflict. STRIPPED TALES brings the same crystallizing impulses found in her poetry to a series of poetic narratives. Grow Your Child's Library with Top Young Reader Series, 50% Off All Funko Wetmore Forest POP!, Plush, and More, Knock Knock Gifts, Books & Office Supplies, Buy One, Get One 50% Off Holiday Boxed Cards, Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Dear roots Your slivers repair my throat when anguish commences to heat and glow. ; Peter Gizzi, intro. [209 0 R 210 0 R 211 0 R 212 0 R 213 0 R 214 0 R 215 0 R 216 0 R 217 0 R] March 2009 215 0 obj Guest's anti-positivist, anti-rational poems use the so-called pathetic fallacy insistently and intentionally; they are populated almost entirely by objects given unusual agency. November 2016 208 0 obj As Guest puts it: Losing the arrogance of dominion over the poem to an invisible hand, the poet campaigns for a passage over which the poet has control. April 2006 Am I to understand change, whether remarkable or hidden, am I to find a lake under the table or a mountain beside my chair and will I know the minute water produces lilies or a family of mountaineers scales the peak? February 2011 The third section, “Instructions” for Poetry, reads a poem from The Red Gaze, “Instructions” as an ars poetica that models a paradoxical strategy of Guest’s: the command that assumes its subject’s submission while insisting on that subject’s agency. It reminds me of pictures in restaurants, the exchange of hunger for thirst, art for decoration and in a hospital love for pain suffered beside the glistening rhododendron under the crucifix. The removal of the figure leaves the window clear for the gazer to see out of it, and the poem becomes a place where power is exerted in such a way that a space for observation or action—or simply rest—is cleared. You are twice clothed in my joy, my nymph. My three yellow notes, my three yellow stanzas, my three precisenesses of head and body and tail joined carrying my scroll, my tree drawing This winter day I'm a compleat travel agency with my Australian aborigine sights, my moccasin feet padding into museums where I'll betray all my vast journeying sensibility in a tear dropped before "The Treasure of Petersburg" and gorgeous this forever I've a raft of you left over like so many gold flowers and so many white and the stems!
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