Books by Jack Gilbert
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review 1: Lance Cleland (Editorial Assistant, Tin House Magazine): With his recent passing, I suppose Jack Gilbert’s collected work might seem like a sentimental pick. I’m alright with that. As a poet, Gilbert was never afraid to get sentimental. He knew melancholy could find you in the ce...
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review 1: Jack Gilbert's poems always seem to be hovering over a lonely pool of nostalgia but the pain is always so immediate and acute that he doesn't allow memory its final say. In his past work his strong use of declarative sentences pinpoints the pain in order to diagnose it. In "The D...