Paul Guest
Paul Guest is the author of The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World (New Issues, 2003), winner of the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize; and Notes for My Body Double (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), which won the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. A 2007 Whiting Writer's Prize-winner, his poems have appeared in Poetry, Slate, Crazyhorse, Hunger Mountain, Verse, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, and his third collection of poems, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, are forthcoming from Ecco Books. He's a visiting professor of English at the University of West Georgia.Posted on December 21, 2005 5:42 AM