Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh. He is 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 has 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 lives in
Northampton, Massachusetts.