The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992
Poems, 1982-1992
$30.82
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
13 February 1996
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679747673 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679747672 |
| Author: | Jack Gilbert |
| Publisher: | Knopf Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 1996 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 139mm x 215mm |
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About The Author
Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh. He is the author of “The Great Fires: Poems 1982— 1992”; “Monolithos,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and “Views of Jeopardy,” the 1962 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He has also published a limited edition of elegiac poems under the title “Kochan.” The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Gilbert lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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