Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.
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Born | Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. |
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Education | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Southern Illinois University (MFA) |
Notable awards | Whiting Award (2007) |
Early life and education
editPaul 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
editGuest'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
editPoetry 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"