A selective bibliography of open access articles, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
Bernstein, Charles. "Composing Herself: Barbara Guest." On the distinctiveness of Barbara Guest's poetry, in Jacket Magazine 29 (April 2006)
Bernstein, Charles. "Introducing Barbara Guest," Jacket Magazine 10 (Oct. 1999)
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. Selections from "The Gendered Marvelous: Barbara Guest, Surrealism, and Feminist Reception," in How2, Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 1999)
Einzig, Barbara. "surface as object: Barbara Guest's Selected Poems." American Poetry Review, Jan 1996
Gevirtz, Susan. "Belief's Afterimage" [on three 1999 books by Barbara Guest]. Jacket Magazine 10 (Oct. 1999)
Gray, Timothy. "Fictions Dressed Like Water: Aqueous Imagery in the Poetry of Barbara Guest." Jacket Magazine 28 (Oct. 2005)
Hall, Carla. A review of Symbiosis by Barbara Guest / Laurie Reid (Kelsey St. Press, 2000). Reviewed in Electronic Poetry Review #3, 2002
Kaufman, Robert. A future for modernism: Barbara Guest's recent poetry, in American Poetry Review, Jul/Aug 2000
Johnson, Honor. "Barbara Guest and Lyric Atmospheres," a brief article in HOW(ever), Vol 1, No. 3 (February 1984) (removed from www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts0284.html)
Kinnahan, Linda A. A review of Kinnahan's Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2004). Reviewed in Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 2004 by Lynn Keller
Lundquist, Sara. "Reverence and Resistance: Barbara Guest, Ekphrasis, and the Female Gaze." First page of article only. Contemporary Literature, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 260-286
Lundquist, Sara. "The Midwestern New York Poet: Barbara Guest's The Countess From Minneapolis." (Burning Deck Press, 1976). Jacket Magazine 10 (Oct. 1999)
Lundquist, Sara. "'Two voices, one joking': the Metapoetic Comedy of Barbara Guest's Poetry." Jacket Magazine 25 (Feb. 2004)
Messerli, Douglas. "The Countess of Berkeley." Messerli reflects on his associations with Barbara Guest, in Jacket Magazine 29 (April 2006)
Mulford, Wendy. "The Architecture Of Dream: The Blue Stairs, by Barbara Guest, Corinth, 1968." Jacket Magazine 10 (Oct. 1999)
Phillips, Rodney. On the New York School poets from the Literary Encyclopedia, 20 December 2004
Sprague, Jane. A review of Miniatures and Other Poems (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2002). In Jacket Magazine 21 (Feb. 2003)
Welish, Marjorie. "The Lyric Lately (a work-in-progress)." A paper delivered at the conference "Where Lyric Tradition Meets Language Poetry: Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry by Women," Barnard College, New York, April 8-10, 1999; Rpt. Jacket Magazine
Jacket Magazine special feature on Barbara Guest with the following articles and poems: Charles Bernstein – Introducing Barbara Guest; Susan Gevirtz – on Barbara Guest; Barbara Guest – from The Confetti Trees; Sara Lundquist on The Countess From Minneapolis; Wendy Mulford on Barbara Guest’s The Blue Stairs; Ramez Qureshi on Barbara Guest’s Rocks on a Platter; John Tranter – poem – The Twilight Guest; Geoff Ward reviews Barbara Guest’s If So, Tell Me; Marjorie Welish: "The Lyric Lately." In Jacket #10, October 1999
An extended, introductory article on Barbara Guest's career, includes list of works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation
The Barbara Guest page at the Electronic Poetry Center contains some poems, a short biography, and a list of her works, at SUNY Buffalo
A very brief introduction to Barbara Guest from the Academy of American Poets
Barbara Guest's obituary in the Independent (London), by Geoff Ward, 2/22/06. Another, from the UK Guardian
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