Listen to "Paul Guest's Body of Poetry" on thestory.org. Paul is the author of The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, chosen by Campbell McGrath for the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His latest book is titled My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge.
Paul Guest, winner of the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize for his first poetry collection The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was just awarded a Whiting Writers’ Award, which carries a $50,000 prize. Paul's second book, Notes for My Body Double, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. He teaches at the University of West Georgia.