
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 signature of Barbara Guest's work - the poem as the event itself. There is something very immediate, alive, and mysterious about these poems. Reading, we inhabit the art - for a brief time suspended in its vision. Over the past decade, Guest has increasingly come to be seen as a major force in innovative poetics. These new poems are delicate, rarified, and unshakable.
Publisher:
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2005]
Copyright Date:
♭2005
ISBN:
9780819567505
0819567507
0819567507
Branch Call Number:
811.54 G938R 2005
Characteristics:
48 pages ; 21 cm



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