Tim wrote:
>For me Barbara Guest's work is supremely materialist in that it does
>not depend upon or point to anything external to human language,
I think that is right, though of course John said was sort of saying that a
supreme materialist aestheticism was standing in for religion. The stairs
themselves are material and colour:
Now I shall tell you
why it is beautiful
Design: extraordinary
color: cobalt blue
- I really like the way Guest's poetry is so funny, right the way through,
from The Blue Stairs to If So, Tell Me, to The Red Gaze - "Now I shall tell
you..."
wendy mulford's essay on the 'blue stairs' book as a whole is rather good:
http://jacketmagazine.com/10/mulf-on-gues.html
Any Guest newcomers who don't know what poem this thread is about can read
it and hear Guest read it here:
http://greggchadwick.blogspot.com/2006/02/barbara-guest-blue-stairs.html
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