Trangressions: Selected Poems

by Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert was a major figure in American poetry, but was always a total outsider, defiantly unfashionable and publishing only four books in five decades. Initially associated with the Beats, he left America after winning the Yale Younger Poets Prize with Views of Jeopardy in 1962, eking out a living for many years on Greek islands. His second collection, Monolithos, appeared twenty years later in 1982, but he made his strongest impression on American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852247525
• ISBN13: 9781852247522
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.6"