Poems by Jack Gilbert
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The Great Fires
... Desire and excitement are nothing beside it ...
Poetry Is A Kind Of Lying
... to falsify (as those who will not ...
Divorce
... Stood looking out at bright moonlight on concrete ...
In Umbria
... At the last instant could not resist darting a look ...
Rain
... Your absence The people who are always ...
The Abnormal Is Not Courage
... Not the marvelous act, but the evident conclusion of being ...
Tear It Down
... We must eat through the wildness of her sweet body already ...
The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart
... A people in northern India is dying out because their ancient ...
In Dispraise Of Poetry
... When the King of Siam disliked a courtier, ...
Recovering Amid The Farms
... Knowing I am there is hard on her, but it is the focus of her days ...
Searching For Pittsburgh
... as though Christ and the Father were still fashioning the Earth ...
Portrait Number Five: Against A New York Summer
... but her pants and take the pins from her hair ...
December 30
... At 1:03 in the morning a fart ...
At the California Institute of Technology
... s been raining like hell all day long ...
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
... it’s like a mine disaster ...
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