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About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Personal as this is. . .
1. Poets & Writer's
2. Pier 1 catalog (don't ask)
3. DIAGRAM anthology
4. the backs of shampoo/toiletry bottles
The journals of Sylvia Plath
Archie McPhee catalog
Um.....
you.
Seriously. I'm not kidding.
You.
And Mark Bibbins.
And Wallace Stephens.
Toilet literature should only be paperbacks full of small bits of useless trivia - poetry on the other hand should be as close as close can be to the warm tub, the sandlewood oil and flickering candles.
Paul, I also keep your book near the toilet...but not for reading.
Never poetry. It would seem sacreligious.
Always The New Yorker, and currently Tuesday's With Morrie. It was selected as this years reading project book. Everyone at VCU-Q reads the same book. There are discussions, and activities around the book.
Birds of North America.
National Geographic.
Sundry Zoobooks.
Last week's New Yorker.
Paradise Lost.
I always keep a small stack of books in the throne room. My current stack:
1. Brian Teare: The Room Where I Was Born.
2. Chad Davidson: Consolation Miracle.
3. Victoria Chang: Circle
4. Field Guide to Contemporary Poetry & Poetics.
5. Jon Pineda: Birthmark.
6. Syliva Plath: Ariel (Restored Edition)
7. Scott Hightower: Natural Trouble.
Who needs fiber? I gotz poetry!
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