[1] Guest wrote more than 15 books of poetry spanning sixty years of writing.

Born in Wilmington, North Carolina and raised in California, Guest attended UCLA,[2] and then earned a B.A.

Barbara Guest wrote more than 15 books of poetry spanning sixty years of writing.

"Her poems begin in the midst of action," wrote Peter Gizzi in his introduction to a collection of her work, "but their angle of perception is oblique.

"Disturbing the conventional relations of subjects and objects, of reality and imagination, is one of Guest's signature gestures," noted Gizzi.

[4] Among her most well-known poems are "Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher," (MP3) "Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights, (MP3)" "Roses," and "Photographs."