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Auteur(s) : Gilbert, Jack (1925-2012)
Titre(s) : Collected poems [Texte imprimé] / Jack Gilbert
Édition : 1st ed
Publication : New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012
Description matérielle : xviii, 408 p. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Poems originally published in: ; Views of jeopardy (1962) ; Monolithos (1982) ;
The great fires (1994) ; Refusing heaven (2005) ; The dance most of all (2009).
; Uncollected poems: ; Valley of the owls ; This times that ; Spring ; A man
in black and white ; Winter happiness ; May I, may I ; The winnowing ; Thirty
favorite times ; Blinded by seeing ; The Greek gods don't come in winter ; The
cargo and the equity ; The Stockton Tunnel ; Holding on to my friend ; Secrets
of poetry ; Ars poetica ; Meniscus: or How the heart must not be too much questioned
; The companion ; The ring ; Lust ; The sixth mediation: faces of God ; Convalescing.
Note(s) : Includes indexes
Publisher description: Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years
of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning
volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American poetry. After garnering
early acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he escaped to Europe and lived apart
from the literary establishment, honing his uniquely fierce, declarative style, with
its surprising abundance of feeling. He reappeared in our midst with Monolithos (1982)
and then went underground again until The Great Fires (1994), which was eventually
followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), a prizewinning volume of surpassing joy and sorrow,
and the elegiac The Dance Most of All (2009). Whether his subject is his boyhood in
working-class Pittsburgh, the women he has loved throughout his life, or the bittersweet
losses we all face, Gilbert is by turns subtle and majestic: he steals up on the odd
moment of grace; he rises to crescendos of emotion. At every turn, he illuminates
the basic joys of everyday experience. Now, for the first time, we have all of Jack
Gilbert's work in one essential volume: testament to a stunning career and to his
place at the forefront of poetic achievement in our time
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780307269683. - ISBN 030726968X (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42699487t
Notice n° :
FRBNF42699487
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