Views of Jeopardy / Jack Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Jack, 1925-2012, Author.

Contributor:

Fitts, Dudley, 1903-1968.

Series:

Yale series of younger poets ; 58.

Yale Series of Younger Poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (61 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In an essay on his own work in New American Poets of the Golden Gate, Jack Gilbert writes that "I am by nature drawn to exigence, compression, selection...one of the special pleasures in poetry for me is accomplishing a lot with the least means possible." Gilbert's poetry is distinguished by sparse lyricism, forthright clarity of tone, and controlled emotion regarding everyday life and relationships. In his foreword to Views of Jeopardy, Fitts identifies the origins of this approach, calling Gilbert's "abrupt hard mode of expression" the result of preoccupation with "alienation from one's kind, the painful throwing back of the artist upon himself, the compulsive elaboration of the details of a personal myth."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

In Dispraise of Poetry

Perspective He Would Mutter Going to Bed

Elephants

And She Waiting

It May Be No One Should Be Opened

House on the California Mountain

Myself Considered as the Monster in the Foreground

In Perugino We Have Sometimes Seen Our Country

A Poem for the Fin de Monde Man

Rain

County Musician

Malvolio in San Francisco

Orpheus in Greenwich Village

Don Giovanni on His Way to Hell

Don Giovanni on His Way to Hell (II)

Before Morning in Perugia

Midnight Is Made of Bricks

The Night Comes Every Day to My Window

Meelee's Away

The Abnormal Is Not Courage

Lions

Susanna and the Elders

The Four Perfectly Tangerines

The First Morning of the World on Long Island

I'll Try to Explain About the Fear

Poem for Laura

Portrait Number Five: Against a New York Summer

The Bay Bridge from Portrero Hill

On Growing Old in San Francisco

Without Watteau, Without Burckhardt, Oklahoma

Letter to Mr. John Keats

Portolano

It Is Clear Why the Angels Come No More

The Whiteness, the Sound, and Alcibiades

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300251616

0300251610

OCLC:

1122459607