· The imperfect dancing / in the beautiful dance. The dance most of all.” Gilbert reminds us that there is beauty to be celebrated in the imperfect—“a worth / to the unshapely our sweet mind founders on”—and at the same time there is “the harrowing by mortality.”ISBN The Dance Most of All was Gilbert's last book of new poetry published in his lifetime. It's a slender book of poems that all seem to be looking back, while also waiting for some unnameable thing in the future. This waiting and looking back combine best in the first of poem in the collection, Everywhere and Forever/5. Both the melody / and the symphony. The imperfect dancing / in the beautiful dance. The dance most of all.” Gilbert reminds us that there is beauty to be celebrated in the imperfect—“a worth / to the unshapely our sweet mind founders on”—and at the same time there is “the harrowing by mortality.”/5(20).
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Dance Most of All: Poems by Jack Gilbert (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! By Sean Patrick Hill, Special to The Oregonian Over the course of nearly 50 years of publishing, Jack Gilbert has written remarkably few poems, at least in comparison with other poets of his. Jack Gilbert, The Dance Most of All (Knopf, ) My run of excellent poetry continues (though it did die, however briefly, a few days after this review was written; cf. Let's Talk Honestly: My Poetry review earlier this issue) with Jack Gilbert's National Book Critics Circle Award-winning tome.
Both the melody / and the symphony. The imperfect dancing / in the beautiful dance. The dance most of all.” Gilbert reminds us that there is beauty to be celebrated in the imperfect—“a worth / to the unshapely our sweet mind founders on”—and at the same time there is “the harrowing by mortality.”. The Dance Most of All. Refusing Heaven turned out not to be Gilbert’s final gift, despite the critics’ predictions. In The Dance Most of All, the poet continues to look backward and inward. Mortality, loneliness, and silence are among the aging poet’s themes. Kochan (), A limited edition chapbook of nine poems, two of which were later republished in The Great Fires: Poems ; seven of the poems have not been otherwise published, including "Nights and Four Thousand Mornings," the longest poem Gilbert has published The Great Fires: Poems () Refusing Heaven () Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh () Transgressions: Selected Poems (UK, ) The Dance Most of All () Collected Poems () Novels Co-authored with Jean.
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