Jack Gilbert
American poet whose Refusing Heaven won the National Book Critics Circle Award and whose reticent, lyrical poems about love and loss have found an unusually devoted readership for contemporary poetry.
Works
- Views of JeopardyPoetry examining love, grief, and uncertainty with meditation on beauty amid existential risk
- MonolithosPoetry collection of self-imposed exile exploring solitude and monumental emotional landscapes
- The Great FiresPoetry celebrating burning intensity and passionate destruction as means of authentic living
- Refusing HeavenPoetry rejecting heavenly transcendence for earthly passion and human love as redemption
- Collected PoemsComprehensive collection of poetry across decades exploring mortality, love, and human struggle