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| Barbara Guest |
The tension between the lyrical (or musical) and the graphic (or material) is a defining feature of Barbara Guest's work, and her poetry often utilizes space as a way to draw attention to language...
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| The Past
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by Barbara Guest |
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The form of the poem subsided, it enters another poem.
A witness was found for the markings inscribed upside-down.
It might have been a celebration, so strong the presence
of the poem. The sky sinks slowly inside the past. |
From The Red Gaze. Copyright © 2005 by Barbara Guest. Courtesy of Wesleyan University Press |
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