We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
~ Jack Gilbert
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Quoted from "Tear It Down" in Jack Gilbert's collection The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992 (Knopf, 2001)
Jack Gilbert (1925-2012), American Poet
Jack Gilbert Profiles at The Academy of American Poets and Poetry Foundation
Chard deNiord, "An Interview with Jack Gilbert", Poetry Daily Prose Feature, 2011
Debbie Elliott, "Jack Gilbert: Notes from a Poet's Well-Observed Life", NPR, April 30, 2006
Debbie Elliott, "Jack Gilbert: Notes from a Poet's Well-Observed Life", NPR, April 30, 2006
Sarah Fay, "Jack Gilbert", Interview for The Art of Poetry, No. 91, The Paris Review, Fall/Winter 2005
Jack Gilbert: Collected Poems (Knopf, 2012) Review by Dwight Garner at The New York Times, March 13, 2012
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