Jack Gilbert
Born
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The United States
February 18, 1925
Died
November 13, 2012
Genre
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The Great Fires
9 editions
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published
1994
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Refusing Heaven: Poems
10 editions
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published
2005
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Collected Poems
7 editions
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published
2012
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The Dance Most of All: Poems
7 editions
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published
2009
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Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982
9 editions
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published
1982
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Views of Jeopardy
by
6 editions
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published
1962
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Tough Heaven - Poems of Pittsburgh
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published
2006
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Trangressions: Selected Poems
2 editions
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published
2006
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Deixem-me Ser Ambos
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Views of Jeopardy (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
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“Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
And yellow
A terrible amber.
In the cold streets
Your warm body.
In whatever room
Your warm body.
Among all the people
Your absence
The people who are always
Not you.
I have been easy with trees
Too long.
Too familiar with mountains.
Joy has been a habit.
Now
Suddenly
This rain.”
―
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
And yellow
A terrible amber.
In the cold streets
Your warm body.
In whatever room
Your warm body.
Among all the people
Your absence
The people who are always
Not you.
I have been easy with trees
Too long.
Too familiar with mountains.
Joy has been a habit.
Now
Suddenly
This rain.”
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“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
― The Great Fires
― The Great Fires
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