Refusing Heaven

Name: Refusing Heaven
Author: Jack Gilbert

by Jack Gilbert

Poetry rejecting heavenly transcendence for earthly passion and human love as redemption

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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.

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