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Bookmark or Share- Jack Gilbert | Poetry FoundationBack to Previous. Jack Gilbert. 1925–2012. When Jack Gilbert won the Yale Younger Poets prize in 1962 for Views of Jeopardy, he attained a kind of allure usually foreign to poets. His photo was featured in Esquire, Vogue, and Glamour, and his book was often stolen from the library.
- Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 91Jack Gilbert in 1962. Photograph by E.W. Holden. On the rare occasions when Jack Gilbert gives public readings—whether in New York, Pittsburgh, or San Francisco—it is not unusual for men and women in the audience to tell him how his poems have saved their live...
- Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert | Poetry FoundationWhen Jack Gilbert won the Yale Younger Poets prize in 1962 for Views of Jeopardy, he attained a kind of allure usually foreign to poets. His photo was featured in Esquire, Vogue, and Glamour, and his book was often stolen from the library. A Guggenheim...
- The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert | Poetry FoundationThe Great Fires. By Jack Gilbert. Love is apart from all things. Desire and excitement are nothing beside it. It is not the body that finds love. What leads us there is the body. What is not love provokes it. What is not love quenches it. Love lays hold of everything we know. The passions which are called love. also change everything to a newness.
- About Jack Gilbert | Academy of American PoetsJack Gilbert - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. The author of several collections of poetry, Jack Gilbert has been awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award
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