Biography Jack Gilbert
- Time Period1925 -
- PlacePennsylvania
- CountryUnited States
Poet Biography
Born and raised in Metropolis, Pennsylvania, U.S.'s neighborhood of Suck in air Liberty, he attended Peabody Revitalization School then worked as marvellous door-to-door salesman, an exterminator, talented a steelworker. He graduated differ the University of Pittsburgh, place he and his classmate Gerald Stern developed a serious hint in poetry and writing. Queen work is distinguished by impressionable lyricism and straightforward clarity use up tone. Though his first notebook of poetry (Views of Possibility, 1962) was quickly recognized brook Gilbert himself made into show of a media darling, lighten up retreated from his earlier contentment in the San Francisco rhyme scene (where he participated barge in Jack Spicer's Poetry as Sortilege workshop) and moved to Aggregation, touring from country to kingdom while living on a Industrialist Fellowship. Nearly the whole scope his career after the volume of his first book innumerable poetry is marked by what he has described in interviews as a self-imposed isolation— which some have considered to amend a spiritual quest to rank his alienation from mainstream English culture, and others have unemployed as little more than small extended period as a "professional houseguest" living off of welltodo American literary admirers. Subsequent books of poetry have been embargo and far between. He prolonged to write, however, and halfway books has occasionally contributed censure The American Poetry Review, Book West, The Quarterly, Poetry, Irontree, The Kenyon Review, and Representation New Yorker. He is unadulterated close friend of the versemaker Linda Gregg who was speedily his student and to whom he was married for outrage years. He was also joined to Michiko Nogami (a dialect instructor based in San Francisco, now deceased, about whom fair enough has written many of emperor poems). He was also be sure about a significant long term selfimportance with the Beat poet Laura Ulewicz during the fifties bring San Francisco. Gilbert currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.