Barbara Gibbs (September 23, 1912 – August 13, 1993) was an

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poet and translator.

Life

Gibbs was born in Los Angeles,

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, and attended

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and U.C.L.A. She was married to the poet J. V. Cunningham from 1937 to 1945, and, later, to Francis Golffing. She was a 1955

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. Her work appeared in ''Poetry'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Nation'', and the ''Hudson Review''.

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

* *Paul Valéry, ''Le cimetière marin'' *

References

External links

"Bulletin Baudelairien"
1968
Barbara Gibbs poetry in ''The New Yorker''
1912 births 1993 deaths American women poets French–English translators 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American translators Stanford University alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni {{US-poet-1910s-stub