Paul Guest
Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.
Early life and education[edit]
Paul Guest was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[citation needed] When he was twelve, Guest broke the third and fourth vertebrae in his neck in a bicycle accident, bruising his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the neck down.[1] He is a quadriplegic.
He graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and from Southern Illinois University with an M.F.A. in 1999.[2][3]
Career[edit]
Guest's poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Slate and elsewhere. They are also published in collections as books.
Honors and awards[edit]
- 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry[4]
- 2010 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series
- 2007 Whiting Award
- 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- 2002 New Issues Press Poetry Prize
Published works[edit]
Poetry collections[edit]
- Because Everything Is Terrible. Diode Editions. 2018. ISBN 978-1939728234.
- My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge. Ecco. 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-168516-3.
- Notes For My Body Double. University of Nebraska Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8032-6035-1.
- Exit Interview: Poems. New Michigan Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-9762092-7-0.
- The Resurrection of the body and the Ruin of the World. New Issues, Western Michigan University. 2003. ISBN 978-1-930974-27-2.
Memoir[edit]
- One More Theory About Happiness. Ecco. 2010. ISBN 9780061685170.
References[edit]
- ^ "Paul Guest's Body of Poetry — the Story from American Public Media". Archived from the original on August 21, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
- ^ "Verse Daily: Paul Guest". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
- ^ "Bulletin Board: MFA Carbondale: MFA Graduate Paul Guest Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship!!". Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. April 7, 2011. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
- ^ "Paul Guest - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on September 20, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
External links[edit]
- "Author's blog"
- "Character and Voice: Picks for National Poetry Month"
- "Paul Guest", Fishouse
- "An interview with poet Paul Guest", Poetry Foundation
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- One More Theory About Happiness review, Creative Loafing Atlanta
Online Poems
- Mary Karr, ed. (October 26, 2008). "User's Guide to Physical Debilitation; The Lives of the Optimists". The Washington Post.
- "The Intrusion of Ovid"; "LOVE IN THE SINGULAR"; "SMALL WONDER"; "THE ADVENT OF ZERO"; "PLUTO’S LOSS"; "CONSOLATION FOR VIRGIL"; "NOTES FOR MY BODY DOUBLE"; "Ode", The Adirondack Review
- "Apologia", Octopus, Issue 7
- "At Night, In November, Trying Not To Think Of Asphodel," "Austria," Bordering On The Tragic," "Oblivion: Letter Home, "Oblivion: Letter Home"
- "DONALD DUCK'S LAMENT", Diagram 3.5
- "Landscape With Décolletage", Slate, May 7, 2002
- "Plenitude", Crazyhorse, Number 67
- "On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form"
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