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Refusing Heaven

Refusing Heaven( )
Author: Gilbert, Jack
ISBN:978-1-4000-4365-1
Publication Date:Mar 2005
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Book Format:Hardback
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Book Description:

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 /...
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Book Details
Pages:112
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.367 x 22.073 x 1.6 cm
Book Weight:0.316 Kilograms
Author Biography
Gilbert, Jack (Author)
Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 17, 1925. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh in 1954 and a master's from San Francisco State in 1963. He also attended Jack Spicer's Magic Poetry Workshop. His first collection of poetry, Views of Jeopardy, won the 1961 Yale Younger Poets Prize and was published in 1962. His other works include Monolithos, which won the Stanley Kunitz Prize and the American Poetry Review Prize; The Dance Most of All; Transgressions: Selected Poems; Refusing Heaven, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992. He died after developing pneumonia on November 13, 2012 at the age of 87.

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