Barbara Gibbs Golffing

Barbara Gibbs (September 23, 1912 – August 13, 1993) was an American poet and translator.

Life

Gibbs was born in Los Angeles, California, and attended Stanford University and U.C.L.A. She was married to the poet J. V. Cunningham from 1937 to 1945, and, later, to Francis Golffing.[1] She was a 1955 Guggenheim Fellow.[2]

Her work appeared in Poetry,[3] The New Yorker,[4] The Nation,[5] and the Hudson Review.[6]

Works
  • The well: poems, A. Swallow, 1941
  • The green chapel, Noonday Press, 1958
  • Poems written in Berlin, Claude Fredericks, 1959
  • The meeting place of the colors: poems, Cummington Press, 1972
  • Francis Golffing, Barbara Gibbs, Possibility: an essay in utopian vision, P. Lang, 1991, ISBN 978-0-8204-1431-7
  • "Some Feminist Literary Criticism and a Theory", The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, November 1985

Translations
  • Marthiel Mathews; Jackson Mathews, eds. (1989). The flowers of evil. New Directions Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8112-1117-8.
  • Paul Valéry, Le cimetière marin
  • Angel Flores, ed. (2000). The Anchor anthology of French poetry: from Nerval to Valéry, in English translation. Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-385-49888-3.

References
  1. "Barbara Gibbs", in Contemporary Poets of the English Language, ed. Rosalie Murphy (St. James Press, 1970), p. 415
  2. "Barbara Gibbs Golffing - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  3. "Search Results - Barbara Gibbs". Poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  4. "Barbara Gibbs works". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  5. "Barbara Gibbs". The Nation. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  6. "Complete Index". The Hudson Review. Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2012-11-15.


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