Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert - ISBN: 9780375710858
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Embrace earthly struggles: passion, grief, and defiant joy found here.

Refusing Heaven

Poems

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  • Paperback

    92 pages

  • Release Date

    15 June 2007

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Summary

More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings: “The days and nights wasted … Long hot afternoons / watching ants while th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780375710858
ISBN-10:037571085X
Author:Jack Gilbert
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Imprint:Vintage USA
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:92
Release Date:15 June 2007
Weight:308g
Dimensions:8mm x 150mm x 212mm
About The Author

Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh. He is the author of “The Great Fires: Poems 1982—1992”; “Monolithos,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and “Views of Jeopardy,” the 1962 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He has also published a limited edition of elegiac poems under the title “Kochan.” The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Gilbert lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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