Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert
Reading Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1987
- Introduction
- "In Perugino We Have Sometimes Seen Our Country"
- "The Abnormal Is Not Courage"
- "And She Waiting"
- "All the Way From There to Here"
- "Divorce"
- "Pewter"
- "Elephant Hunt in Guadalajara"
- "The Rainy Forests of Northern California"
- "Singing in my Difficult Mountains"
- "Married"
- "The Sweet Taste of Victory"
- "Playing House"
- Baby Scorpion Poem
- "Lovers"
- "All Night in the Iowa Cafe"
- "What is There to Say?"
- "Don Giovanni on his Way to Hell"
- "Stealing from Donald"
- "More Than Sixty"
- "Dreaming at the Ballet"
- "Flat Hedgehogs"
- "Measuring Things Close Up"
- "The Boat Named Tomorrow"
- "The aging flesh is sweet..."
- "Explicating the Twilight"
- "The terrace of the villa the king's telegrapher built..."
- "Going Wrong"
- "Getting Old"
Introduction-101
by Lois Shelton
"In Perugino We Have Sometimes Seen Our Country"-102
Gilbert, Jack. Views of Jeopardy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
"The Abnormal Is Not Courage"-103
Gilbert, Jack. Views of Jeopardy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
"And She Waiting"-104
Gilbert, Jack. Views of Jeopardy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
"All the Way From There to Here"-105
Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
"Divorce"-106
Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
"Pewter"-107
Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
"Elephant Hunt in Guadalajara"-108
Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
"The Rainy Forests of Northern California"-109
Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
"Singing in my Difficult Mountains"-110
Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
"Married"-111
Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
"The Sweet Taste of Victory"-112
"Playing House"-113
Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Baby Scorpion Poem-114
"Lovers"-115
Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
"All Night in the Iowa Cafe"-116
Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
"What is There to Say?"-117
Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
"Don Giovanni on his Way to Hell"-118
Gilbert, Jack. Views of Jeopardy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
"Stealing from Donald"-119
"More Than Sixty"-120
Introduced as "More Than Fifty"
Annotation:
Gilbert, Jack. Refusing Heaven. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
"Dreaming at the Ballet"-121
Gilbert, Jack. The Dance Most of All. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
"Flat Hedgehogs"-123
for Issaiha Berlin
Annotation:
Gilbert, Jack. Refusing Heaven. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
"Measuring Things Close Up"-124
"The Boat Named Tomorrow"-125
"The aging flesh is sweet..."-126
"Explicating the Twilight"-127
Introduced as "Prospero in the Twilight", published in [i]Ironwood[/i].
Annotation:
Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
"The terrace of the villa the king's telegrapher built..."-128
"Going Wrong"-129
Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
"Getting Old"-130
Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
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Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
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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