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”