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Contents

Introduction: Fair Realist by Peter Gizzi xvii

Timeline xxi

Works by Barbara Guest xxvii

Notes and Acknowledgments xxxi

The Location of Things • Archaics • The Open Skies (1962)

The Location of Things

The Location of Things 3

Piazzas 4

All Grey-haired My Sisters 5

Windy Afternoon 8

Russians at the Beach 8

The Hero Leaves His Ship 9

Les Réalités 10

In the Middle of the Easel 11

On the Way to Dumbarton Oaks 12

Cape Canaveral 12

Sunday Evening 13

Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher 14

The Crisis 15

Upside Down 15

Seeing You Off 16

Safe Flights 17

Sadness 18

Jaffa Juce 18

In Dock 20

People in Wartime 21

Landing 22

History 23

Oriental Movie 24

The Crisis 24

West Sixty-fourth Street 25

The Time of Day 26

Herioc Stages 27

In America, the Seasons 28

Belgravia 29

In the Alps 30

The Past of a Poem 30

Archaics

Atalanta in Arcadia 32

“From Eyes Blue and Cold” 33

Dido to Aeneas 34

Green Awnings 34

Palm Trees 35

In the Campagna 36

“Who will accept our offering at this end of autumn?” 37

The Open Skies

The Voice Tree 39

Lights of My Eyes 40

Snow Angel 41

Santa Fe Trail 41

Nocturne 42

The First of May 43

Dardanella 44

The Brown Studio 45

All Elegies Are Black and White 46

The Open Skies 49

Hurricane 50

His Jungle 51

Timor Mortis, Florida 52

Sand 53

Wave 55

Geography 57

The Blue Stairs (1968)

The Blue Stairs 61

Turkey Villas 64

Walking Buddha 67

Colonial Hours 68

Saving Tallow 71

The Return of the Muses 72

A Reason 74

Direction 75

Barrels 76

East of Omsk 77

Parade’s End 78

Clouds Near the Windmill 79

Fan Poems 79

A Way of Being 81

Four Moroccan Studies 82

20 83

A Handbook of Surfing 85

I Ching (1969)

I Ching 95

Moscow Mansions (1973)

Red Lilies 99

Illyria 100

Egypt 100

Nebraska 101

On Mt. Snowdon 102

Rosy Ensconcements 103

Even Ovid 104

The Interruptions 105

Moscow Mansions 1 106

Moscow Mansions 2 107

Knight of the Swan 108

Carmen 115

Museum 116

Byron’s Signatories 117

The Poetess 121

Losing People 121

The Poem Lying Down 122

Sassafras 123

Circassians 124

Another July 126

Drawing a Blank 126

Stupid Physical Pain 127

Roses 128

Lights of My Eyes 129

Passage 130

Hohenzollern 131

The Stragglers 132

Olivetti Ode 133

On the Verge of the Path 133

Gravel 134

Bicycling 135

Shifting the Iris 136

Green Revolutions 137

Poem 138

Evening 138

The Old Silk Road 139

Now 139

The Countess from Minneapolis (1976)

1 143

2 143

3: 50 Floors 143

4: Thinking of You Prokofief 144

5: River Road Studio 145

6: Portrait of Mary Rood 145

7: Eating Lake Superior Cisco Smoked Fish 146

8: Musings on the Mississippi 146

9: Legends 147

10 148

11 148

12: Prairie Houses 149

13 150

14 150

15: At the Guthrie Theater 151

16 152

17: Persians in Minneapolis 152

18 153

19: (Scop—A Poet) Widsith 154

20 154

21 155

22 155

23 156

24 156

25 157

26 157

27 158

28 158

29 159

30 160

31 160

32 160

33 161

34 161

35: Crocus Hill 162

36 162

37: Activities 163

38 163

39: June 164

40 164

41 165

42: Amaryllis 165

The Türler Losses (1979)

The Türler Losses 169

Biography (1980)

One 183

Two 184

Three 184

Four 185

Five 185

Six 186

Seven 187

Eight 187

Nine 188

Quilts (1980)

Quilts 191

Musicality (1988)

Musicality 203

Fair Realism (1989)

Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights 209

La Noche Entra en Calor 210

The View from Kandinsky’s Window 212

The Thread 213

Ilex 214

Spring Vine 218

Dora Maar 218

An Emphasis Falls on Reality 221

Valuable Mörike 223

The Rose Marble Table 224

Shuffling Light 225

The Screen of Distance 226

Heavy Violets 232

The Farewell Stairway 232

Words 237

Twilight Polka Dots 237

The Nude 238

Western Additives 243

In Medieval Hollow 244

Bleat 245

Ropes Sway 246

Country Cousins 247

Savannahs 248

The Cradle of Culture 250

Lawn Bumps 251

Tessera 254

Defensive Rapture (1993)

I

Paulownia 259

Dove 261

Expectation 266

Geese Blood 268

Fleet of White 270

Atmospheres 272

The Surface as Object 274

II

Defensive Rapture 277

Beautiful/Evil 279

Borrowed Mirror, Filmic Rise 280

Restlessness 280

Chalk 283

III

Borderlands 288

Dissonance Royal Traveller 289

The Advance of the Grizzly 293

The Glass Mountain 295

Otranto 300

Winter Horses 304

IV

The Altos 308

from 1991

Stripped Tales (1995)

structured / immediacy 315

/ lottery can guess 315

the moment / a noun / settles into space 315

/ germination begins 316

undermining / 316

opposing ideas / 317

/ which-away 317

philosophy / in Norway 317

moody / adjectivalness 318

need / to identify 318

odd / pagination 319

property / mix-up 319

/ selfdom 319

a venetian / pallor 320

ice / buttons 320

history / ambushed 321

klebnikov lootage / 321

useful / techniques 322

loose grams / of nutmeg 322

typestry / 323

ghost / aboard 323

the French woman / beckoned 324

moment / of ingenuity 324

antiquity / 325

what we say / 325

empathetic / chimes 325

law / of the ether 326

Bergson’s Law / 326

magicked / 326

the position / anarchical 327

photo / mirage 328

Quill, Solitary APPARITION (1996)

Finally, to the Italian Girl 331

Garment 333

Fell, Darkly 340

Pallor 346

Leaving MODERNITY 352

Cold and Its Demeanour 356

Quill, Solitary APPARITION 361

If So, Tell Me (1999)

Valorous Vine 369

Storytelling 370

Outside of This, That Is 370

In Slow Motion 371

Doubleness 372

annunziare! Dora Films 373

Lily 374

The Poetry Meter 375

The Lull 375

Russet Flame 376

Unusual Figures 376

If So, Tell Me 377

The Luminous 378

Strings 380

Deception 381

Athletic Writing 382

Faery Land 383

The Paris Lectures 383

The Green Fly 384

Confession of My Images 385

Effervescence 386

The Strum 388

Music History 389

Sideways 391

The Confetti Trees (1999)

Overboard 395

The Tear 395

The Cough 396

Trousers for Extras 397

Nostalgia 397

The Guerrilla Reporters 398

Confucius 398

Color 399

Nuns 399

Corelli 400

The Vanished Library 401

“Lonely Mess” 402

Lubitsch 402

Noise 404

Preparedness 404

“Moments Before …” 406

The Dream Motion Picture; A PROPOSAL FOR ANIMATION 407

Nemesis 408

The Aromas 409

Falling in Love 410

Details 411

The Confetti Trees 412

Romance 413

No Words 413

Screening Room Notes 415

The Minus Ones 416

Scenario-iste 416

Celluloid 417

Ars, Longa 417

Metropolis 418

Enchantment 418

Simultaneity 419

The Spell of Beauty 420

The Utmost Unreality 421

Disappearance 422

Rocks on a Platter: Notes on Literature (1999)

I

“Ideas. As they find themselves …” 427

II

“And the words linger, deciding which direction to take …” 433

III

“Intimacy of tone …” 436

IV

“Without shyness or formality …” 442

Symbiosis (2000)

Symbiosis 451

Originally appeared with artwork by Laura Reid

Miniatures and Other Poems (2002)

Miniatures

Shabby Boot 463

Bird of Art 464

Spirit Tree 464

Turret 464

Negative Possibility 465

Camisole 465

Tiny Foreign Tears 466

Transcription 466

Lost Speech 467

First Prints 467

Yesterday 468

Pilgrimage 468

Finnish Opera 469

Photographs 469

Petticoat 470

Blue Arthur 470

Autobiography 470

Noisetone 471

Fourteenth of July 471

Chekhovania 472

Coal 472

Colonial Hours 473

Sound and Structure 473

Musicianship 473

Pathos

Blurred Edge

Dürer in the Window, Reflexions on Art (2003)

Lunch at Helen Frankenthaler’s 485

On a Painting by Hayden Stubbing 486

Homage 487

The Red Gaze (2005)

1

Nostalgia 491

An Afternoon in Jeopardy 492

Imagined Room 492

Loneliness 493

A Different Honey 494

A Short Narrative 494

Freedom 495

Alteration 495

A Burst of Leaves 496

The Next Floor 496

Roman Stripes 497

The Trickster 497

The Hungry Knight 498

The Past 498

Modernism 499

Green Numbers 499

Stair of Our Youth 499

A Noise of Return 500

Freed Color 500

The Gold Tap 501

Minimal Sound 501

The Brown Vest 502

2

The Red Gaze 503

A Dawn Walk 503

No Longer Strangers 504

Hans Hofmann 505

Vignettes 506

Echoes 507

Instructions 507

Composition 508

Supposition 508

New Poems

Elf 511

Storytelling 511

Constable’s Method, Brightening Near the Bridge 512

Beginning of Rain Notes 514

Shelley in the Navy-Colored Chair 515

Hotel Comfort 516

Index 517