Refusing Heaven

More than a decade after Jack Gilberts The Great Fires this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion loneliness and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings: The days and nights wasted . . . Long hot afternoons / watching ants while the cicadas railed / in t...See More