Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.

Early life and education

Paul 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

Guest'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

• 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

Poetry collections

• 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

• One More Theory About Happiness. Ecco. 2010. ISBN  9780061685170.

References

External links

• "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"