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. She was a 1955 Guggenheim Fellow.

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, ISBN 978-0-8204-1431-7
 * "Some Feminist Literary Criticism and a Theory", The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, November 1985

Translations

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