Jack Gilbert is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Gilbert lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
“These poems are deeply elegiac, looking back over a long life
lived in the various modes one comes to associate with Gilbert:
desire, love, longing, and happiness . . . For Gilbert, these poems
suggest a satisfaction and peace with all he has done. For the rest
of us, we may take Gilbert’s final work as a guide.” —The
Oregonian
“The best poems here are valuable bulletins from a distant, private
war fought over resources for affirmation, in which the most
precious weapon is the capacity to ‘say grace over / almost
everything.’” —Poetry
"These poems are deeply elegiac, looking back over a long life
lived in the various modes one comes to associate with Gilbert:
desire, love, longing, and happiness . . . For Gilbert, these poems
suggest a satisfaction and peace with all he has done. For the rest
of us, we may take Gilbert's final work as a guide." -The
Oregonian
"The best poems here are valuable bulletins from a distant, private
war fought over resources for affirmation, in which the most
precious weapon is the capacity to 'say grace over / almost
everything.'" -Poetry
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