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The essential poems of Barbara Guest_x000D_ />_x000D_ />Barbara Guest (1920-2006) was one of the most formally inventive poets of postwar America. Moving from the witty, image-driven lyricism of her early years among Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, Guest moved toward an increasingly radical engagement with abstraction, visual art, and the materiality of language on the page. The Selected Poems of Barbara Guest, edited by Norma Cole and Joseph Shafer, traces the full arc of her invention. Drawing on Guest's entire oeuvre, from The Location of Things (1960) and Moscow Mansions (1973) through Fair Realism (1989), Defensive Rapture (1993), and the late, increasingly dispersed works Rocks on a Platter (Wesleyan, 1999) and The Red Gaze (Wesleyan, 2005), this volume shows a poet of the daring imagination. In her introduction, Elizabeth Willis argues that Guest's lifelong commitment to poetic risk positions her as one of the essential lyric experimentalists of twentieth-century American poetry. Guest continually reinvented what a poem could do. Here, her essential work is gathered in a single volume for a new generation of readers._x000D_ />_x000D_ />[Sample Poem]_x000D_ />_x000D_ />Windy Afternoon_x000D_ />_x000D_ />Through the wood_x000D_ /> on his motorcycle piercing _x000D_ />the hawk, the jay_x000D_ /> the blue-coated policeman _x000D_ />_x000D_ /> _x000D_ />Woods, barren woods,_x000D_ /> as this typewriter without an object _x000D_ />or the words that from you_x000D_ /> fall soundless _x000D_ /> _x000D_ />_x000D_ />The sun lowering _x000D_ />and the bags of paper _x000D_ />on the stoney ledge _x000D_ />near the waterfall _x000D_ />_x000D_ /> _x000D_ />Voices down the roadway _x000D_ />and leaves falling over there _x000D_ />a great vacancy_x000D_ />a huge leftover _x000D_ />_x000D_ /> _x000D_ />The quality of the day_x000D_ /> that has its size in the North _x000D_ />and in the South_x000D_ /> a low sighing that of wings _x000D_ /> _x000D_ />_x000D_ />Describe that nude, audacious line _x000D_ />most lofty, practiced street_x000D_ /> you are no longer thirsty_x000D_ /> turn or go straight.