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#and the next poem i'm posting of his - what song should we sing? - is emblematic of this as well !!!!!!!!!!!
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excerpted from "Kunstkammer," Refusing Heaven, Jack Gilbert
#ID in alt text
#poetry
#jack gilbert
#BONES
#refusing heaven
#*r
#kunstkammer -> lit. 'art room' but usually refers to a cabinet of curiosities. :)
#one of the things i love about jack gilbert - besides his writing meeting baldwin's ideal 'clean as a bone' remit - is when his poems
#carry forward something of his past as a factory worker & steelworker prior to being a celebrated published poet
#(his most famous - and my favourite - line calls for 'the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of the world')
#it's a shame (to me) when biographies place the beginning of an artist's 'career' after a time (or a lifetime!) in working class jobs......
#besides the fact that it perpetuates this fantasy of the Born Artist i think it's also kind of. disingenuous? shitty?
#to discount the Work (even if it was something they hated or only did to survive - eapcially then!) that comes before/during The Art Work
#and the next poem i'm posting of his - what song should we sing? - is emblematic of this as well !!!!!!!!!!!
#idk! kicking my soapbox to the curb and carrying on :)
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