num_pages: 48
description: The Red Gaze is one long poem divided into smaller poems on imagination and time, beginning with "Nostalgia" and ending with "Supposition." Within the quietude of these poems, a gentle music unfurls; precise and generous. The idea of imagination propels The Red Gaze; references and allusions to art, literature, and history create what has become a signature of Barbara Guest's work--the poem as the event itself. There is something very immediate, alive, and mysterious about these poems. Reading, we inhabit the art--for a brief time suspended in its vision. Over the past decade, Guest has increasingly come to be seen as a major force in innovative poetics. These new poems are delicate, rarified, and unshakable.
language: English
title: The Red Gaze
titlecomplete: The Red Gaze (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 69
publisher: Wesleyan University Press