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Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest
The author of numerous collections of poetry, Barbara Guest was predominantly a writer of the New York School...
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Sound and Structure  
by Barbara Guest

"Sound leads to structure." Schönberg.

On this dry prepared path walk heavy feet.
This is not "dinner music." This is a power structure.
heavy as eyelids.
Beams are laid. The master cuts music for the future.

Sound lays the structure. Sound leaks into the future.




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From Miniatures. Copyright © 2002 by Barbara Guest. Courtesy of Wesleyan University Press
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