–Jack Gilbert, Poetry, January 1965
Jack Gilbert has died. More at Harriet. Plus, a profile of Gilbert after he published his fourth collection, Refusing Heaven, from Sarah Manguso.
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–Jack Gilbert, Poetry, January 1965
John Penner praises Gilbert’s recently released Collected Poems at the Los Angeles Times (the collection includes the above poem, “Bartleby at the Wall.”) Gilbert, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, is “small in his wheelchair, mostly unable to talk, his brain diminished by disease.”
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