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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Poems, 1982-1992 Jack Gilbert. THE GREAT FIRES POEMS 1982-1992 JACK GILBERT A KNOPF e BOOK JACK GILBERT THE GREAT FIRES POEMS 1982-1992 ALFRED A. KNOPF. Front Cover.
Poems, 1982-1992 Jack Gilbert. THE GREAT FIRES POEMS 1982-1992 JACK GILBERT A KNOPF e BOOK JACK GILBERT THE GREAT FIRES POEMS 1982-1992 ALFRED A. KNOPF. Front Cover.
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Poems, 1982-1992 Jack Gilbert. JACK GILBERT THE GREAT FIRES POEMS 1982-1992 ALFRED A. KNOPF NEW YORK 2008 THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF.
Poems, 1982-1992 Jack Gilbert. JACK GILBERT THE GREAT FIRES POEMS 1982-1992 ALFRED A. KNOPF NEW YORK 2008 THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF.
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... GILBERT , JACK . THE GREAT FIRES : POEMS 1982-1992 / BY JACK GILBERT . — 1ST ED . P. CM . ISBN 0-679-42576-4 ISBN 0-679-74767-2 ( PBK . ) I. TITLE . PS3557.134217G7 1994 811'.54 - DC20 93-5701 CIP v3.1 FOR Michiko Nogami KAKUBAKARI ...
... GILBERT , JACK . THE GREAT FIRES : POEMS 1982-1992 / BY JACK GILBERT . — 1ST ED . P. CM . ISBN 0-679-42576-4 ISBN 0-679-74767-2 ( PBK . ) I. TITLE . PS3557.134217G7 1994 811'.54 - DC20 93-5701 CIP v3.1 FOR Michiko Nogami KAKUBAKARI ...
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Poems, 1982-1992 Jack Gilbert. FOR Michiko Nogami KAKUBAKARI KOISHIKUSHI ARABA MASOKAGAMI MINU HI TOKI NAKU ARAMASHIMONOWO Manyoshu 4221 My thanks to the Robert Francis Trust for an appointment.
Poems, 1982-1992 Jack Gilbert. FOR Michiko Nogami KAKUBAKARI KOISHIKUSHI ARABA MASOKAGAMI MINU HI TOKI NAKU ARAMASHIMONOWO Manyoshu 4221 My thanks to the Robert Francis Trust for an appointment.
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Poems, 1982-1992 Jack Gilbert. My thanks to the Robert Francis Trust for an appointment to a poetry residency at Fort Juniper during the two years when certain of these poems were written. Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication CONTENTS ...
Poems, 1982-1992 Jack Gilbert. My thanks to the Robert Francis Trust for an appointment to a poetry residency at Fort Juniper during the two years when certain of these poems were written. Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication CONTENTS ...
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