Barbara Guest | |
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 Guest during the video taping of "Add-Verse", 2003 | |
| Born | 6 September 1920 Wilmington, North Carolina, United States |
| Died | 15 February 2006 (aged 85) Berkeley, California, United States |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Genre | Poetry, prose |
| Literary movement | New York School |
| Notable works | "Herself Defined", "Fair Realism", "Forces of Imagination" |
| Notable awards | Robert Frost Medal (1999) |
Barbara Guest, born Barbara Ann Pinson (September 6, 1920 – February 15, 2006), was an American poet and prose writer.
Guest was part of the first generation New York School of poets who often used words as painters use paint. She wrote more than 20 books of poetry. She also wrote a novel, art criticism, essays, and plays.
Guest was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and raised in California. She went to college at UCLA and got a B.A. in 1943 from UC Berkeley. She worked in the editor's office at ARTnews magazine from 1951-1959.
In 1999, she was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America. She was also well known for her biography of the poet H.D., Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World.
