Jack Gilbert

The Great Fires

Poems, 1982-1992

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JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many sleek and official temptations, keeping unflinchingly to a code of silence, exile, and cunning could not have been managed without a show of strictness well beyond the reach of the theater of the coy. The far, stubborn, disastrous course of Jack Gilbert's resolute journey--not one that would promise in time to bring him home to the consolations of P… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-679-74767-3
EAN: 9780679747673
Produktnummer: 9216239
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Seitenangabe: 112 S.

Über den Autor

Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh. He has published Views of Jeopardy, the 1962 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Series, and Monolithos. Both books were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. A third volume, elegiac poems, was bought out, in a limited edition, under the title Kochan. Mr. Gilbert has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.