Barbara Guest, 1920 - 2006

Poet Barbara Guest died February 15th. She was one of the venerable New York School poets. You may have heard of the rest (Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, John Ashbery). There was no obituary in the Times until March 4th, so I couldn't link to it until now. Here is an excerpt from "An Emphasis Falls on Reality."

A column chosen from distance
mounts into the sky while the font
is classical,

they will destroy the disturbed font
as it enters modernity and is rare....