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- catalog abstract ""Joyce's Motto has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many sleek and official temptations, keeping unflinchingly to a code of "silence, exile, and cunning" could not have been managed without a show of strictness well beyond the reach of the theater of the coy. The "far, stubborn, disastrous" course of Jack Gilbert's resolute journey - not one that would promise in time to bring him home to the consolations of Penelope and the comforts of Ithaca but one that would instead take him ever outward to the impossible blankness of the desert - could never have been achieved in the society of others. What has kept this great poet brave has been the difficult company of his poems - and now we have, in Gilbert's third and most silent book, what may be, what must be, the bravest of these imperial accomplishments."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b6393781.
- catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""Joyce's Motto has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many sleek and official temptations, keeping unflinchingly to a code of "silence, exile, and cunning" could not have been managed without a show of strictness well beyond the reach of the theater of the coy. The "far, stubborn, disastrous" course of Jack Gilbert's resolute journey - not one that would promise in time to bring him home to the consolations of Penelope and the comforts of Ithaca but one that would instead take him ever outward to the impossible blankness of the desert - could never have been achieved in the society of others. What has kept this great poet brave has been the difficult company of his poems - and now we have, in Gilbert's third and most silent book, what may be, what must be, the bravest of these imperial accomplishments."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Going Wrong -- Guilty -- The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart -- Lovers -- Measuring the Tyger -- Voices Inside and Out -- Tear it Down -- Dante Dancing -- The Great Fires -- Finding Something -- Prospero without His Magic -- Finding Eurydice -- Going There -- Haunted Importantly -- Searching for Pittsburgh -- Married -- Explicating the Twilight -- Steel Guitars -- Recovering Amid the Farms -- The Spirit and the Soul -- To See If Something Comes Next -- A Stubborn Ode -- Scheming in the Snow -- Ruins and Wabi -- Betrothed -- Trying to Have Something Left Over -- On Stone -- Relative Pitch -- 1953 -- Alone -- Adulterated -- What is There to Say? -- Prospero Dreams of Arnaut Daniel Inventing Love in the Twelfth Century -- Tasters for the Lord -- Carrying Torches at Noon -- A Year Later -- Looking Away from Longing -- Factoring -- The Milk of Paradise -- Gift Horses -- Hard Wired -- The White Heart of God -- Michiko Nogami (1946-1982) -- The Container for the Thing Contained -- Moment of Grace.".
- catalog description "The Lord Sits with Me Out in Front -- Between Aging and Old -- The History of Men -- Older Women -- Exceeding -- Infidelity -- Highlights and Interstices -- Peaches -- Music is the Memory of What Never Happened -- Alternatives -- Michiko Dead -- Ghosts -- Harm and Boon in the Meetings -- Man at a Window -- Sonatina -- Foraging for Wood on the Mountain -- In Umbria -- Conceiving Himself -- Chastity -- Me and Capablanca -- A Ghost Sings, a Door Opens -- I Imagine the Gods -- Thinking About Ecstasy -- Night Songs and Day Songs -- Eating with the Emperor -- Playing House -- Beyond Beginnings -- Theoretical Lives -- From These Nettles, Alms -- Hot Nights in Florida -- Getting it All -- The Edge of the World -- Leporello on Don Giovanni -- First Times -- Half the Truth -- Respect -- The Lives of Famous Men -- Getting Old -- How to Love the Dead -- Almost Happy.".
- catalog extent "90 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Great fires.".
- catalog identifier "0679425764 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Great fires.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "Great fires.".
- catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
- catalog subject "811/.54 20".
- catalog subject "PS3557.I34217 G7 1994".
- catalog subject "Poetry.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Going Wrong -- Guilty -- The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart -- Lovers -- Measuring the Tyger -- Voices Inside and Out -- Tear it Down -- Dante Dancing -- The Great Fires -- Finding Something -- Prospero without His Magic -- Finding Eurydice -- Going There -- Haunted Importantly -- Searching for Pittsburgh -- Married -- Explicating the Twilight -- Steel Guitars -- Recovering Amid the Farms -- The Spirit and the Soul -- To See If Something Comes Next -- A Stubborn Ode -- Scheming in the Snow -- Ruins and Wabi -- Betrothed -- Trying to Have Something Left Over -- On Stone -- Relative Pitch -- 1953 -- Alone -- Adulterated -- What is There to Say? -- Prospero Dreams of Arnaut Daniel Inventing Love in the Twelfth Century -- Tasters for the Lord -- Carrying Torches at Noon -- A Year Later -- Looking Away from Longing -- Factoring -- The Milk of Paradise -- Gift Horses -- Hard Wired -- The White Heart of God -- Michiko Nogami (1946-1982) -- The Container for the Thing Contained -- Moment of Grace.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Lord Sits with Me Out in Front -- Between Aging and Old -- The History of Men -- Older Women -- Exceeding -- Infidelity -- Highlights and Interstices -- Peaches -- Music is the Memory of What Never Happened -- Alternatives -- Michiko Dead -- Ghosts -- Harm and Boon in the Meetings -- Man at a Window -- Sonatina -- Foraging for Wood on the Mountain -- In Umbria -- Conceiving Himself -- Chastity -- Me and Capablanca -- A Ghost Sings, a Door Opens -- I Imagine the Gods -- Thinking About Ecstasy -- Night Songs and Day Songs -- Eating with the Emperor -- Playing House -- Beyond Beginnings -- Theoretical Lives -- From These Nettles, Alms -- Hot Nights in Florida -- Getting it All -- The Edge of the World -- Leporello on Don Giovanni -- First Times -- Half the Truth -- Respect -- The Lives of Famous Men -- Getting Old -- How to Love the Dead -- Almost Happy.".
- catalog title "The great fires : poems, 1982-1992 / Jack Gilbert.".
- catalog type "text".