Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh. He was the author of The Great Fires: Poems 1982—1992; Monolithos, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Views of Jeopardy, the 1962 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He also published a limited edition of elegiac poems under the title Kochan. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Gilbert lived in Northampton, Massachusetts. His collection, The Dance Most of All, was published in 2009. He died on 13 November, 2012.