Jack Gilbert - September 30, 1987

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Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert reads widely from poems published in the 37-year period between his first book, Views of Jeopardy, and his fifth book, The Dance Most of All, ultimately published in 2009.

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Introduction
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by Lois Shelton
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"In Perugino We Have Sometimes Seen Our Country"
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Gilbert, Jack. Views of Jeopardy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
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"The Abnormal Is Not Courage"
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Gilbert, Jack. Views of Jeopardy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
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"And She Waiting"
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Gilbert, Jack. Views of Jeopardy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
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"All the Way From There to Here"
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Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
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"Divorce"
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Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
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"Pewter"
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Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
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"Elephant Hunt in Guadalajara"
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Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
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"The Rainy Forests of Northern California"
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Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
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"Singing in my Difficult Mountains"
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Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
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"Married"
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Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
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"The Sweet Taste of Victory"
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"Playing House"
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Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
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Baby Scorpion Poem
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"Lovers"
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Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
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"All Night in the Iowa Cafe"
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Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
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"What is There to Say?"
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Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
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"Don Giovanni on his Way to Hell"
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Gilbert, Jack. Views of Jeopardy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
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"Stealing from Donald"
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"More Than Sixty"
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Introduced as "More Than Fifty"
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Gilbert, Jack. Refusing Heaven. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
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"Dreaming at the Ballet"
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Gilbert, Jack. The Dance Most of All. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
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"Flat Hedgehogs"
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for Issaiha Berlin
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Gilbert, Jack. Refusing Heaven. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
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"Measuring Things Close Up"
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"The Boat Named Tomorrow"
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"The aging flesh is sweet..."
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"Explicating the Twilight"
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Introduced as "Prospero in the Twilight", published in [i]Ironwood[/i].
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Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
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"The terrace of the villa the king's telegrapher built..."
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"Going Wrong"
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Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
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"Getting Old"
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Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
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Jack Gilbert
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Lois Shelton?
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