Views of Jeopardy
by Jack Gilbert
Views of Jeopardy
Jack Gilbert |
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I think this was Gilbert's first published book of poems. They are much more academic and, therefore, much less great than his later work. These poems, like so many professors of poems, are brimming with allusions, greek and otherwise. Many of the poems focus on Orpheus, a fella from Greek Mythology, who invented the lyre and with song could tame wild beasts and convince every woman in the room to disrobe. Anyway, these poems feel more labored than the poems that come later about his wife dyin...more
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