Refusing Heaven
Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh. He is the author ofThe Great Fires: Poems 1982—1992;Monolithos, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; andViews of Jeopardy, the 1962 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He has also published a limited edition of elegiac poems under the titleKochan. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Gilbert lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.From the Hardcover edition.