β Carrie Mollenkopf
π Fiction
π
2019
π English
β 91 KB
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Refusing heaven poems
β Scribed by Gilbert, Jack
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Distributed by Random House, Knopf
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 38 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307543943
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 the cicadas railed / in the Chinese elm about the brevity of life." Time slows down in these poems, as Gilbert creates an aura of curiosity and wonder at the fact of existence itself. Despite powerful intermittent griefs--over the women he has parted from or the one lost to cancer (an experience he captures with intimate precision)--Gilbert's choice in this volume is to "refuse heaven." He prefers this life, with its struggle and alienation and delight, to any paradise. His work is both a...
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