BarbaraGuest

Barbara Guest

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-met Frank O’Hara in early 1950s

-later group joined by Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery

-writing a lot like Ashbery’s (influenced by drama and art -keeps poetry highly personal without “revealing much directly about her life”

-“passion for travel”

-“poetry tends to be urbane, cosmopolitan, and refined; also suggest the psychological dislocations and restless imagination of the perpetual traveler”

-“first book The Location of Things (1960), focuses primarily on spatial metaphors. In a sense, it deals with distances—physical, aesthetic, person—that each individual must somehow confront.”

Guest was born September 6, 1920 in Wilmington, North Carolina. She married Lord Stephen Haden-Guest in 1949 and divorced him in 1954. She got remarried to Trumbull Higgins a professor of military history in August of 1954. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles and received her bachelors in 1945 from the University of California, Berkeley. She passed away on February 17, 2006 from complications from a series of strokes.

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