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Sunday, September 12, 2021

Barbara Guest

 

Fragments from Barbara Guest

From: Barbara Guest, interviewed by Charles Bernstein, New York City, 1995
Full program avaialable as MP3 on the Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center site 
(http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/linebreak/programs/guest/) 


“We were influenced by European poets” 

“we arrived simultaneously with the abstract expressionists.” 

“There was much more emphasis on poetry and painting together.” 

“It's a connection that I have somewhat broken, but 
when it was in full flower it was very agitated. 
Because I did collaborations with painters.” 

“Such as the non importance of the subject.” 

“Now the suspension they say is exquisite” 



“And I am in a stranger ocean than I wished” 

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