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1	Girl Stuff: A Survival Guide to Growing Up more books like this by Margaret Blackstone, Elissa Haden Guest, Barbara Pollak (Illustrator) add to wishlist Matter-of-fact yet friendly advice for girls. Topics covered include how to buy a bra, dealing with acne, and what to wear when you have your period. Also included is information on anatomy, sexual orientation, self-defense, and how to make good friends. Illustrated with drawings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.62! \| SVS
2	Herself Defined: Hd and Her World more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist The life of Hilda Doolittle, the imagist poet and influential modernist whose work led the vanguard of women's literature from the eve of World War I until her death in 1961, is documented in this definitive biography. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $8.94! \| first editions
3	Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $91.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Seeking Air more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist In her first fictional work, Guest explores issues of context, artifice, and reality, creating a virtual anatomy of the creative act. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $44.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Red Gaze more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist The Red Gaze is one long poem divided into smaller poems on imagination and time, beginning with "Nostalgia" and ending with "Supposition." Within the quietude of these poems, a gentle music unfurls; precise and generous. The idea of imagination propels The Red Gaze; references and allusions to art, literature, and history create what has become a ... see all copies from $8.71! new only from $14.32!
6	The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest more books like this by Barbara Guest, Hadley Guest (Editor) add to wishlist One of the most notable members of the New York School - and its best-known woman - Barbara Guest began writing poetry in the 1950s in company that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. And from the beginning, her practice placed her at the vanguard of American writing. Guest's poetry, saturated in the visual arts, ... see all copies from $20.95! new only from $28.28! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Miniatures and Other Poems more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist Evocative poems in deliberately small packaging. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writing more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist see all copies from $11.22! new only from $19.02! \| first editions
9	Moscow Mansions more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist see all copies from $16.16! signed copies \| first editions
10	Fair Realism more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist see all copies from $5.98! first editions
11	The countess from Minneapolis more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist Guest intermingles poetry and prose in these poems of place, evoking both New York City and Mississippi. see all copies from $11.50! new only from $44.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	Selected Poems of Barbara Guest more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist Associated aesthetically with both the sensibility of the New York School and the innovation of the Language Poetry movement, Guest's has been a startling and innovative voice since the emergence of her early poetry in the 1960s. This volume selects from her celebrated oeuvre to present the scope of her evolving vision. Volumes sampled from ... see all copies from $13.71!
13	Rocks on a Platter: Notes on Literature more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist This 14th book from Guest is both a poem and an investigation of making a poem, an attempt to combine a description of a creative act with an enactment of it. Guest reflects on perception, language, and creation, drawing examples from the visual arts and music to complement her own creation. see all copies from $21.00! first editions
14	Musicality more books like this by Barbara Guest, June Felter add to wishlist Guest's poetry echoes the lyric lines of June Felter's Bay Area landscapes in this collaborative book of poems and paintings. see all copies from $42.06! new only from $47.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Quill, Solitary Apparition more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist Guest, who has written extensive art criticism in addition to poetry, wrestles in this volume with questions of aesthetics. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $46.34!
16 view cover	Confetti Trees more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist Although famously associated with the New York School of poets, Guest was raised in California among refugees of World War II, many of them artists. This sequence of poem-like scenarios is set in this Hollywood of Guest's childhood. Chosen as a 2000 favorite collection by the San Francisco Chronicle. see all copies from $10.00! first editions
17	Etruscan Reader Vol. VI: Robin Blaser/Barbara Guest/Lee Harwood more books like this by Robin Blaser, Lee Harwood, Barbara Guest add to wishlist see all copies from $14.40!
18	Selected Poems more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist This is an anthology of the poems of Barbara Guest. Once associated with the poets of the "New York School", Guest's collections of poetry began with "The Location of Things" (1962). Her books include "Moscow Mansions" (1973), the award-winning "Fair Realism" (1978), the novel "Seeking Air" (1978), and "Defensive Rapture" (1993). In the 1970s her ... see all copies from $17.79! first editions
19 view cover	Symbiosis more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist These poems by the celebrated poet Barbara Guest are supplemented by Reid's watercolor washes. see all copies from $25.00! first editions
20 view cover	If So, Tell Me more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist see all copies from $3.96!
21 view cover	Defensive Rapture more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist see all copies from $6.23! new only from $99.00!
22 view cover	Rocks on a Platter more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist This 14th book from Guest is both a poem and an investigation of making a poem, an attempt to combine a description of a creative act with an enactment of it. Guest reflects on perception, language, and creation, drawing examples from the visual arts and music to complement her own creation. see all copies from $37.65!
23	Biography by Barbara Guest add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! signed copies \| first editions
24	The blue stairs more books like this by Barbara Guest add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! signed copies \| first editions
25	The location of things by Barbara Guest add to wishlist see all copies from $350.00! first editions

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