{"product_id":"trangressions-selected-poems","title":"Trangressions: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eJack Gilbert (1925-2012) was a major figure in American poetry, but was always a total outsider, defiantly unfashionable and publishing only five collections in five decades. Initially associated with the Beats, he left America after winning the Yale Younger Poets Prize with \u003cem\u003eViews of Jeopardy\u003c\/em\u003e in 1962, eking out a living for many years on Greek islands. His second collection, \u003cem\u003eMonolithos\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared twenty years later in 1982, but he made his strongest impression on American readers with two later collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Great Fires \u003c\/em\u003e(1994) and \u003cem\u003eRefusing Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), winner of the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. His final collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Dance Most of All (\u003c\/em\u003e2009), was followed by his Collected Poems from Knopf in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Bloodaxe in 2006, \u003cem\u003eTransgressions \u003c\/em\u003ewas his only UK publication, and covers his collections from \u003cem\u003eViews of Jeopardy \u003c\/em\u003eto \u003cem\u003eRefusing Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e. Jack Gilbert wrote compellingly about passion, loss and loneliness. His poems are filled with a sense of wonder at existence and with his surprise at finding happiness despite grief, struggle and alienation in a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings. His work is both a rebellious assertion of clarity and a profound affirmation of the world in all its aspects. His poems are about being alive: the nature of the self, the life he lived and the people he loved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jack Gilbert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45427265929263,"sku":"9781852247522","price":1799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781852247522.jpg?v=1780669320","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/trangressions-selected-poems","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}