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Notes and Acknowledgments

The poems collected here include all of the work that Barbara Guest had elected to publish in book form, along with the handful of poems she completed after her final book, The Red Gaze (Wesleyan, 2005). It was her stated wish not to include in this book any poems published in magazines or journals but not subsequently collected in one of her books. Because certain discrepancies in the published versions of some of these poems have not been resolved, minor changes have been made, without comment, in punctuation, spelling, and line spacing. This book is organized chronologically by collection. Given the nature of a collection of this size, some spacing issues have needed to be resolved. For instance, in texts like Symbiosis—a continuous poem that, in the original, prints only a few lines per page—page breaks in the original are indicated by a bullet. Please note that the poem “The Time of Day” appears only in the 1960 edition of The Location of Things (Tibor de Nagy, 1960). The final poems are arranged chronologically—insofar as this can be established—according to the date they were completed.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the publishers of the original editions of Barbara Guest’s books. Special thanks go to Mae Klinger, the editorial intern at Wesleyan University Press who prepared the manuscript for production.

—Suzanna Tamminen

Wesleyan University Press