Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American poetry. After garnering early acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he escaped to ...
Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American poetry. After garnering early acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he escaped to Europe and lived apart from the literary establishment, honing his uniquely fierce, declarative style, with its surprising abundance of feeling. He reappeared in our midst with Monolithos (1982) and then went underground again until The Great Fires (1994), which was eventually followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), a prizewinning volume of surpassing joy and sorrow, and the elegiac The Dance Most of All (2009). Whether his subject is his boyhood in working-class Pittsburgh, the women he has loved throughout his life, or the bittersweet losses we all face, Gilbert is by turns subtle and majestic: he steals up on the odd moment of grace; he rises to crescendos of emotion. At every turn, he illuminates the basic joys of everyday experience.
Now, for the first time, we have all of Jack Gilbert’s work in one essential volume: testament to a stunning career and to his place at the forefront of poetic achievement in our time.
Jack Gilbert is the author of five volumes of poetry. His many awards include the Yale Younger Poets prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second collection, Monolithos, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He served in various countries as a lecturer for the U.S. State Department and has taught at Rikkyo University (Tokyo), ...
Jack Gilbert is the author of five volumes of poetry. His many awards include the Yale Younger Poets prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second collection, Monolithos, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He served in various countries as a lecturer for the U.S. State Department and has taught at Rikkyo University (Tokyo), San Francisco State University, Smith College, and elsewhere.
一年以后
致琳达•格雷格
从这个距离看，他们站在海边
并不重要。她抽泣着，身穿
一件白色连衣裙，婚姻几乎结束，
在八年之后。周围是岛屿浅平
无人居住的一侧。海水碧蓝
在早晨的空气里。他们来的时候
不知道会发生这样的事，只有他们
两人和寂静。一种纯粹它看起来
美丽，但对人们来说太难。
（柳向阳 /译）
A YEAR LATER
for Linda Gregg
From this distance they are unimportant
standing by the sea. She is weeping, wearing
a white dress, and the marriage is almost over,
After eight years. All around is the flat
uninhabited side of the island. The water
is blue in the morning air. They did not know
this would happen when they came, just the two
of them and the silence. A purity that looked
like beauty and was too difficult for people.
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热爱
每次我听到男人们夸耀他们如何
有激情，就想起两位清洁女工
在二楼窗边观看一个男人——
他刚从一个供应许多免费啤酒的
聚会回来，在大楼跑进跑出
寻找洗手间。“我的天，”
高个的女人说，“下面那个家伙
肯定热爱建筑艺术。”
LOVERS
When I hear men boast about how passionate
they are, I think of the two cleaning ladies
at a second-story window watching a man
coming back from a party where there was
lots of free beer. He runs in and out
of building looking for a toilet. “My Lord,”
the tall woman says, “that fellow down there
surely does love architecture.”
P.126
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“Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.” “Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present. Help me to find the heft of these days. That the nights will be full enough and my heart feral.”
Pulitzer Prize for POETRY 2013- Finalists 2013 Collected Poems by the late Jack Gilbert (Alfred A. Knopf) A half century of poems reflecting a creative author’s commitment to living fully and honestly and to producing straightforward work that illuminates...
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栁向阳
0 有用 Adieudusk 2012-12-12 13:19:57
非常“美国”的好诗人
0 有用 脱氧核糖十三 2020-09-28 20:19:54
“Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.” “Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present. Help me to find the heft of these days. That the nights will be full enough and my heart feral.”
0 有用 栁向阳 2016-07-18 12:35:28
能说读过吗？或许可以吧...
0 有用 E 2020-01-27 23:17:22
补
0 有用 Ja 2023-01-27 03:01:05 美国
Disrespect This morning I found a mid-size spider, perfect, on the snow. Dead before I could kill it with a saucepan.