The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest. Barbara Guest

398

       Color 399

       Nuns 399

       Corelli 400

       The Vanished Library 401

       “Lonely Mess” 402

       Lubitsch 402

       Noise 404

       Preparedness 404

       “Moments Before …” 406

       The Dream Motion Picture; A PROPOSAL FOR ANIMATION 407

       Nemesis 408

       The Aromas 409

       Falling in Love 410

       Details 411

       The Confetti Trees 412

       Romance 413

       No Words 413

       Screening Room Notes 415

       The Minus Ones 416

       Scenario-iste 416

       Celluloid 417

       Ars, Longa 417

       Metropolis 418

       Enchantment 418

       Simultaneity 419

       The Spell of Beauty 420

       The Utmost Unreality 421

       Disappearance 422

       Rocks on a Platter: Notes on Literature (1999)

       I

       “Ideas. As they find themselves …” 427

       II

       “And the words linger, deciding which direction to take …” 433

       III

       “Intimacy of tone …” 436

       IV

       “Without shyness or formality …” 442

       Symbiosis (2000)

       Symbiosis 451

       Originally appeared with artwork by Laura Reid

       Miniatures and Other Poems (2002)

       Miniatures

       Shabby Boot 463

       Bird of Art 464

       Spirit Tree 464

       Turret 464

       Negative Possibility 465

       Camisole 465

       Tiny Foreign Tears 466

       Transcription 466

       Lost Speech 467

       First Prints 467

       Yesterday 468

       Pilgrimage 468

       Finnish Opera 469

       Photographs 469

       Petticoat 470

       Blue Arthur 470

       Autobiography 470

       Noisetone 471

       Fourteenth of July 471

       Chekhovania 472

       Coal 472

       Colonial Hours 473

       Sound and Structure 473

       Musicianship 473

       Pathos

       Blurred Edge

       Dürer