The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992JOYCE'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. |
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... HEART LOVERS MEASURING THE TYGER VOICES INSIDE AND OUT TEAR IT DOWN DANTE DANCING THE GREAT FIRES WINDING SOMETHING PROSPERO WITHOUT HIS MAGIC FINDING SOMETHING GOING THERE HAUNTED IMPORTANTLY SEARCHING FOR PITTSBURGH MARRIED ...
... HEART LOVERS MEASURING THE TYGER VOICES INSIDE AND OUT TEAR IT DOWN DANTE DANCING THE GREAT FIRES WINDING SOMETHING PROSPERO WITHOUT HIS MAGIC FINDING SOMETHING GOING THERE HAUNTED IMPORTANTLY SEARCHING FOR PITTSBURGH MARRIED ...
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... LOOKING AWAY FROM LONGING FACTORING THE MILK OF PARADISE GIFT HORSES HARD WIRED THE WHITE HEART OF GOD MICHIKO NOGAMI ( 1946-1982 ) THE CONTAINER FOR THE THING CONTAINED MOMENT OF GRACE THE LORD SITS WITH ME OUT IN FRONT BETWEEN AGING.
... LOOKING AWAY FROM LONGING FACTORING THE MILK OF PARADISE GIFT HORSES HARD WIRED THE WHITE HEART OF GOD MICHIKO NOGAMI ( 1946-1982 ) THE CONTAINER FOR THE THING CONTAINED MOMENT OF GRACE THE LORD SITS WITH ME OUT IN FRONT BETWEEN AGING.
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... would take pictures and put them in the papers naked and open so people eating breakfast could look at lier . I wanted to give her spirit enough time to get ready . " THE FORGOTTEN DIALECT OF THE HEART How astonishing it is GUILTY.
... would take pictures and put them in the papers naked and open so people eating breakfast could look at lier . I wanted to give her spirit enough time to get ready . " THE FORGOTTEN DIALECT OF THE HEART How astonishing it is GUILTY.
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... dark. Perhaps the spiral Minoan script is not a language but a map. What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds. LOVERS When I hear men boast about how passionate they THE FORGOTTEN DIALECT OF THE HEART.
... dark. Perhaps the spiral Minoan script is not a language but a map. What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds. LOVERS When I hear men boast about how passionate they THE FORGOTTEN DIALECT OF THE HEART.
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... heart's melt . Incandescent ingots big as cars trundling out of titanic mills , red slag scaling off the brighter metal in the dark . The Monongahela River below , night's sheen on its belly . Silence except for the machinery clanging ...
... heart's melt . Incandescent ingots big as cars trundling out of titanic mills , red slag scaling off the brighter metal in the dark . The Monongahela River below , night's sheen on its belly . Silence except for the machinery clanging ...
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