Jack Gilbert (1) (1925–2012)
Autore di The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992
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Sull'Autore
Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 17, 1925. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh in 1954 and a master's from San Francisco State in 1963. He also attended Jack Spicer's Magic Poetry Workshop. His first collection of poetry, Views mostra altro of Jeopardy, won the 1961 Yale Younger Poets Prize and was published in 1962. His other works include Monolithos, which won the Stanley Kunitz Prize and the American Poetry Review Prize; The Dance Most of All; Transgressions: Selected Poems; Refusing Heaven, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992. He died after developing pneumonia on November 13, 2012 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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- Altri nomi
- Kung, Tor (pseudonym)
- Data di nascita
- 1925-02-17
- Data di morte
- 2012-11-13
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Northhampton, Massachusetts, USA
England, UK
Denmark
Greece - Istruzione
- Peabody High School
University of Pittsburgh - Attività lavorative
- poet
- Relazioni
- Gregg, Linda (lover)
Ulewicz, Laura (lover) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Lannan Literary Award (Poetry, 1994)
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
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Refusing heaven : poems di Jack Gilbert
The only thing Gilbert's collection refuses is any sort of significant engagement with life that isn't flaccid, White, and upper middle class. The times when he does cast about for others they feel like objects, strangers.
An uncompromising book about living willfully. This is my favorite book by my favorite living poet. If I have not bought it for you yet, I will.
There is a vastness and passionate solemnity to these poems that only Jack Gilbert can achieve with such lucidity. His powers are undiminished. All hail.
This is my first exposure to Gilbert. He's not, I think, my cup of tea. There were several poems I liked, but only one (Rain) I loved. I did enjoy the way this book took me through his life's work, though. And some of his imagery was terrific. There was one poem about old men going back to the farm of their youth that really resonated with me. I'm glad I read this book, but it's not one I need on my shelf.
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