Collected Poems Author:Jack Gilbert More than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize volume to glorious late poems, including a section of new and unpublished work. — — There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American poetry. Turning away from the literary scene after garnering acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he e... more »scaped to Europe and lived apart from the literary establishment, honing his uniquely fierce, declarative style, with its surprising abundance of feeling. He reappeared in our midst with Monolithos (1982), and then went underground again until The Great Fires (1994), eventually followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), a multiple prize-winning volume of surpassing joy and sorrow, and the elegiac The Dance Most of All (2009). Now, for the first time, we have all of his work in one essential volume: testament to a stunning career, and to his place at the forefront of poetic achievement in our time.« less