The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
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 Penelope and the comforts of Ithaca but one that would instead take him ever outward to the impossible blankness of the desert - could never have been achieved in the society of others. What has kept this great poet brave has been the difficult company of his poems - and now we have, in Gilbert's third and most silent book, what may be, what must be, the bravest of these imperial accomplishments.Jack Gilbert was born in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992, Monolithos, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and Views of Jeopardy, the Yale Younger Poets Prize winner in 1962. Kochan, a limited volume of elegiac poems, was also released by him. Gilbert lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679747673 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679747672 |
| Title | The Great Fires |
| Author | Jack Gilbert |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 1996-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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