If So Tell Me Author:Barbara Guest Poetry. "Lifts a spare shadow/ encircling vine,/ does not tarnish bauble/ from overseas and out of silver mine,/ drop in clamor and volume" ("Valorous Vine"). This new book is the first individual collection of poetry by Guest to be published in Britain. One of the last living representatives of New York School poetry, Guest's delicate ima... more »gery and enigmatic phrasing continue to produce work that is -- all at once -- widely appealing, wildly mysterious and wonderfully distinctive.« less