Refusing Heaven
Poems
$31.39
- Paperback
92 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2007
Summary
More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings: “The days and nights wasted … Long hot afternoons / watching ants while th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375710858 |
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| ISBN-10: | 037571085X |
| Author: | Jack Gilbert |
| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Imprint: | Vintage USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 92 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2007 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 150mm x 212mm |
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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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