The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest. Barbara Guest

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      The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest

       Wesleyan Poetry

      Early photo of Barbara Guest on a train © Fred W. McDarrah

      THE

      COLLECTED POEMS

      OF

      BARBARA GUEST

       Barbara Guest

      Edited by Hadley Haden Guest

       Wesleyan University Press

       Middletown, Connecticut

      Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459

      www.wesleyan.edu/wespress © 2008 by the Estate of Barbara Guest Introduction copyright © Peter Gizzi, 2008 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Guest, Barbara.

      [Poems]

      The collected poems of Barbara Guest / Barbara Guest.

       p. cm. — (Wesleyan poetry)

      Includes index.

      ISBN 978–0–8195–6860–1 (cloth : alk. paper)

      I. Title

      PS3513.U44 2008

      811′.54—dc22 2008020147

      “Cover illustration by Barbara Guest. Wheel, collage, 1951, 18 x 12.”

      Photography (c) Thomas Bachand 2007.

Publication supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.

      Contents

       Introduction: Fair Realist by Peter Gizzi xvii

       Timeline xxi

       Works by Barbara Guest xxvii

       Notes and Acknowledgments xxxi

       The Location of Things • Archaics • The Open Skies (1962)

       The Location of Things

       The Location of Things 3

       Piazzas 4

       All Grey-haired My Sisters 5

       Windy Afternoon 8

       Russians at the Beach 8

       The Hero Leaves His Ship 9

       Les Réalités 10

       In the Middle of the Easel 11

       On the Way to Dumbarton Oaks 12

       Cape Canaveral 12

       Sunday Evening 13

       Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher 14

       The Crisis 15

       Upside Down 15

       Seeing You Off 16

       Safe Flights 17

       Sadness 18

       Jaffa Juce 18

       In Dock 20

       People in Wartime 21

       Landing 22

       History 23

       Oriental Movie 24

       The Crisis 24

       West Sixty-fourth Street 25

       The Time of Day 26

       Herioc Stages 27

       In America, the Seasons 28

       Belgravia 29

       In the Alps 30

       The Past of a Poem 30

       Archaics

       Atalanta in Arcadia 32

       “From