Lovers: Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert (1925–2012) An American poet born in Pittsburgh, he published his first collection, Views of Jeopardy, in 1962; it won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and brought him immediate recognition. Gilbert left the United States on Guggenheim Fellowships and spent nearly twenty years living mostly in Greece, as well as in Italy and Japan, often in deliberate poverty, writing slowly and refusing the machinery of literary fame. His marriage to Japanese sculptor Michiko Nogami and her death from cancer in 1982 became the emotional center of much of his later work, especially in The Great Fires (1994), followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His final major publication, Collected Poems (2012), arrived near the end of his life as a summation of a career built on radical attention, grief, eros, and delight. For More: Collected Poems Poetry Foundation Creators Collective: Consider going beyond listening, and start creating. This a membership dedicated to deepening your creative potential, unlocking your purpose, and unblocking your passion. Masterclasses, craft workshops, open mics, and creative co-working spaces, as well as hundreds of hours of archived teachings, along with the amazing community of others, doing the work, just like you! Join us! Be a Creator