About Me
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- 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.
4 comments:
That is awesome. A living poet who isn't a Nobel or Pulitzer winner being reviewed in a major newspaper -- not too common! Nice work.
Congrats on this, Paul.
Wow. WOW. Is it possible to be really impressed even if I was already really impressed before? Congratulations!
I first set eyes on your verse this weekend in the Post. It blew me away and I have been reading poetry for something like 3000 years. I read it to my high school seniors and they were likewise moved. Thank you for writing such incredible poems. Every one is like a beautiful flower - precious, delicate, and somehow surprising. Congratulations on all the prizes-you have earned each one.
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