The Dance Most of All

Poems

Jack Gilbert

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Random House Inc
06 July 2010

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

In this ""pithy and poignant"" (Booklist) late-in-life collection, the award-winning Jack Gilbert gives us characteristically bold and nuanced poems as he revisits the passions of a lifetime-the women, the places, and the mysterious and lonely offices of poetry itself.

By: Jack Gilbert
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 108g
ISBN: 9780375711794
ISBN 10: 0375711791
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 06 July 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

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.

Reviews for The Dance Most of All: Poems

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. <i>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. <i>Poetry</i>