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Barbara Guest
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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Echoes  
by Barbara Guest

Once more riding down to Venice on borrowed horses,

the air free of misdemeanor, at rest in the inns of our fathers.

Once again whiteness like the white chandelier.

Echoes of other poems...




From The Red Gaze. Copyright © 2005 by Barbara Guest. Courtesy of Wesleyan University Press
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