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Barbara Guest: IF SO, TELL ME

Reality Street is proud to have published this astonishing sequence of short (one- to three-page) poems in the later years of Barbara Guest's life. Unfortunately, this book is now out of print.

Barbara Guest was born in North Carolina in 1920 and spent her childhood in Florida and California. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, she settled in New York City where she connected with the New York Poets, such as John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler, and the artists of Abstract Expressionism, who influenced her poetry. Her writings during the 1970s showed her moving in the experimental directions for which she was recognised. Barbara Guest died in 2006.

Barbara Guest's Collected Poems is now published by Wesleyan University Press. It includes the text of If So, Tell Me, among the rest of her extraordinary lifetime's work. You can buy it from the US or the European distributors.

Cover art by Anne Dunn

1999, 1-874400-16-4, 56pp , OUT OF PRINT

Tony Lopez: DATA SHADOW

Consisting of a preface and five sequences of ten 14-liners, stripped from medical, economic and political contexts and sutured into apparent syntactic continuity, Data Shadow has since been collected in Tony Lopez's False Memory (Salt Publishing, 2003), the larger project of which it is part.

2000, 1-874400-17-2, 64pp, OUT OF PRINT

Peter Riley:
DISTANT POINTS

This book is now out of print. The contents have been revised and included in Excavations.

1995, 1-874400-06-7, 64pp, OUT OF PRINT

FIVE FROM FINLAND

Five contemporary Finnish poets in English translation by Anselm Hollo:

RIINA KATAJAVUORI
TOMI KONTIO
MIRKKA REKOLA
LAURI OTONKOSKI
KAI NIEMENEN

ANSELM HOLLO, born in Helsinki in 1934, is a poet who has been associated with the Black Mountain and Language schools of poetry in the USA.

Funding from the Finnish Literature Information Centre, the Finnish Institute in London and the Arts Council of England gratefully acknowledged.

2001, 1-874400-21-0, 112pp, OUT OF PRINT

Sarah Kirsch: T

This rather beautiful little item was an anomaly - the only saddle-stitched pamphlet to be published by the press. It was hoped that another press would bring it back into print, but so far this has not emerged.