Barbara Gibbs Golffing Explained

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,
• "Some Feminist Literary Criticism and a Theory", The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, November 1985

Translations

• Book: none . The flowers of evil. Marthiel Mathews . Jackson Mathews . New Directions Publishing. 1989. 978-0-8112-1117-8.
• Paul Valéry, Le cimetière marin
• Book: none . The Anchor anthology of French poetry: from Nerval to Valéry, in English translation. Angel Flores. Anchor Books. 2000. 978-0-385-49888-3 .

External links

• "Bulletin Baudelairien", 1968
• Barbara Gibbs poetry in The New Yorker

Notes and References

1. "Barbara Gibbs", in Contemporary Poets of the English Language, ed. Rosalie Murphy (St. James Press, 1970), p. 415
2. Web site: Barbara Gibbs Golffing - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Gf.org . 2012-11-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120923031951/http://www.gf.org/fellows/5542-barbara-gibbs-golffing . 2012-09-23 .
3. Web site: Search Results - Barbara Gibbs . Poetryfoundation.org . 2012-11-15.
4. Barbara Gibbs works . The New Yorker. 2012-11-15.
5. Web site: Barbara Gibbs . The Nation . 2012-11-15.
6. Web site: Complete Index . The Hudson Review . 2012-11-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120310055236/http://www.hudsonreview.com/new/article-index.php?id=d . 2012-03-10 .