Views of Jeopardy

Name: Views of Jeopardy
Author: Jack Gilbert

by Jack Gilbert

Poetry examining love, grief, and uncertainty with meditation on beauty amid existential risk

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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.

More by Jack Gilbert

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