Jack Gilbert: Tear It Down (English)

 
We find out the heart only by dismantling what  
the heart knows. By redefining the morning,  
we find a morning that comes just after darkness.  
We can break through marriage into marriage.  
By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond  
affection and wade mouth-deep into love.  
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.  
But going back toward childhood will not help.  
The village is not better than Pittsburgh.  
Only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh.  
Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound  
of raccoon tongues licking the inside walls  
of the garbage tub is more than the stir  
of them in the muck of the garbage. Love is not  
enough. We die and are put into the earth forever.  
We should insist while there is still time. We must  
eat through the wildness of her sweet body already  
in our bed to reach the body within that body.

Jack Gilbert: Le déchirer Vers le bas (French)

 
Nous découvrons le coeur seulement en démantelant ce que le coeur 
sait. En redéfinissant le matin, nous trouvons un matin qui vient 
juste aprés l'obscurité. Nous pouvons traverser le mariage en 
mariage. En insistant pour l'amour que nous l'abîmons, obtenons au 
delà de l'affection et marchons dans l'eau bouche-profond dans 
l'amour. Nous devons unlearn les constellations pour voir les 
étoiles. Mais retourner vers l'enfance n'aidera pas. Le village n'est 
pas meilleur que Pittsburgh. Seulement Pittsburgh est plus que 
Pittsburgh. Rome est meilleur que Rome de la même manière le bruit 
des langues de raccoon léchant les murs intérieurs du baquet 
d'ordures est plus que l'agitation d'eux dans le fumier des ordures. 
L'amour n'est pas assez. Nous mourons pour toujours et sommes mis dans 
la terre. Nous devrions exiger tandis qu'il y a temps immobile. Nous 
devons manger par le wildness de son corps doux déjà dans notre lit 
pour atteindre le corps dans ce corps.

Jack Gilbert: Rasgá-lo Para baixo (Portuguese)

 
Nós encontramos para fora o coração somente desmontando o que o 
coração sabe. Redefinindo a manhã, nós encontramos uma manhã que 
venha imediatamente depois da escuridão. Nós podemos quebrar com a 
união na união. Insistindo no amor que nós spoil o, começá-lo 
além da afeição e vadear boca-profundo no amor. Nós devemos 
unlearn as constelações ver as estrelas. Mas ir para trás para a 
infância não ajudará. A vila não é melhor do que Pittsburgh. 
Somente Pittsburgh é mais do que Pittsburgh. Roma é melhor do que 
Roma na mesma maneira o som das lingüetas do raccoon que licking as 
paredes internas do tub do lixo é mais do que agitar delas no muck do 
lixo. O amor não é bastante. Nós morremos e somos postos na terra 
para sempre. Nós devemos insistir quando houver um tempo imóvel. 
Nós devemos comer com o wildness de seu corpo doce já em nossa cama 
para alcançar o corpo dentro desse corpo.

Gato Gilbert: Rasgarlo Abajo (Spanish)

 
Descubrimos el corazón solamente desmontando lo que sabe el corazón. 
Redefiniendo la mañana, encontramos una mañana que venga enseguida 
después de oscuridad. Podemos rompernos con la unión en la unión. 
Insistiendo en amor que lo estropeamos, que conseguimos más allá del 
afecto y que vadeamos boca-profundo en amor. Debemos unlearn las 
constelaciones para ver las estrellas. Pero el ir detrás hacia niñez 
no ayudará. La aldea no es mejor que Pittsburgh. Solamente Pittsburgh 
es más que Pittsburgh. Roma es mejor que Roma de la misma manera el 
sonido de las lengüetas del raccoon que lamen las paredes interiores 
de la tina de la basura es más que el revolvimiento de ellas en la 
suciedad de la basura. El amor no es bastante. Morimos y nos ponemos 
en la tierra por siempre. Debemos insistir mientras que hay tiempo 
inmóvil. Debemos comer con el wildness de su cuerpo dulce ya en 
nuestra cama para alcanzar el cuerpo dentro de ese cuerpo.

Jack Gilbert: Tear It Down (Blogs)

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The Kiss Of The Sun Garden Poem Sign - Max Mall by admin (2013/05/13 00:46)
Get the The Kiss Of The Sun Garden Poem Signfrom Max Mall the leader in The Kiss Of The Sun Garden Poem Sign. ... Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green] by Petrarch: Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert.
A Conversation with Li-Young Lee Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century by Timothy Green (2013/05/08 03:00)
I'm doing that 24 hours a day, and I'm ready to put everything down to write the poem. I got up this .... FOX: I tend to agree with you because when we read submissions to Rattle, one rule I have is if when I read the poem if I'm almost in tears [Lee agrees] or if I'm laughing, it's in. And that .... Emily Dickinson, Lucille Clifton, Robert Bly, Robert Frost, Lee Bai, Du Fu, Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Michael Palmer, Allen Grossman, boy, we're living in a such good time. There are ...
Afghan Women's Writing Project | Hurry by AWWP (2013/04/29 05:45)
Yes, Nasima, or as Jack Gilbert once wrote in his poem “Tear It Down,” “We should insist while there is still time.” Your own “messages of peace and love and understanding” are being heard. Reply. Suzanne Scarfone says: ...
“Sorrow Everywhere. Slaughter Everywhere.” | james-mcwilliams.com by James (2013/04/28 07:56)
... the waterfront is three shuttered cafés and one naked light burning. To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come. Jack Gilbert ... As much as I enjoy most of Eating Plants it would be far better to shut it down than to limit it by focusing on either romanticizing humanity or being put off your game by the haters of humanity. .... Great post, and thank you for the poem.
bar none group: Sharon Olds' Stag's Leap Wins 2013 Pulitzer for ... by Bar None Publishing Group (2013/04/15 13:03)
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Collected Poems, by the late Jack Gilbert (Alfred A. Knopf), a half century of poems reflecting a creative author's commitment to living fully and honestly and to producing straightforward ... Warm summer night in New York City Rain falling Landing on my cheek Foreshadowing the tears That would be there tomorrow. ... for all the dharma bums, hanging out beneath broken down bridges I want to rant like a over sexed ro.
On Poetry | Motley Mama by Kate {motleymama} (2013/04/11 06:10)
Austin likes to joke that anyone can be a poet, anything a poem—which is ironically poetic itself, although he'd never admit it because he is a skeptic and usually in a bad mood (medical school). I love poetry. .... My favorite poem is Michiko Dead by Jack Gilbert. On death and ... The one about the sun and the earth made my eyes fill with tears. Lovely. Reply ... I believe it was poems that she memorized in school and at some point she decided to copy them down. I don't ...
spread it like a roll of nickels: March Dead Poets Reading Series by Rob Taylor (2013/02/27 05:09)
As I blogged about previously, Jack Gilbert's death late last year left me missing poetry, and Vancouver poetry, and the DPRS series/family, very much. So I'm pleased to have ... Tear It Down (The Great Fires) Recovering Amid ...
Poetry Friday: January is the cruelest month « Following Pulitzer by jwrosenzweig (2013/01/18 18:29)
Things will be better soon, but in the meantime, I don't want to leave this space bereft of poetry—I bought a new volume of Jack Gilbert's poems recently, and although I know I featured him not that long ago right after his passing, I think he deserves another go-round, and I'm hoping I'll inspire a few of you to trot down ... What does their tear-stained walk signify to us, and how can we connect it to this world we cannot know or understand, but into which we are climbing?
"NOW IS THE START"//signing off | MODERN ROMANCE by Robby (2013/01/01 19:05)
We talked about poetry and people and specifics and I met a man who told me a story because of the shirt I was wearing and I wish I'd been able to thank him but I had deserts to carry and he had posters to deliver. .... "Tear It Down" by Jack Gilbert. Where age comes in. 4. Interview with Brad Listi (The Nervous Breakdown, Other People). "Man & Bear", etc. "The frame story is that I am 14 and Michael Jackson is dying. I am hiding from a boy nearly 4 years my senior ...
Jack Gilbert (1925-2012) | The Year of the Why Not by tomcatherine (2012/12/27 21:53)
I feel like I have all the arguments with Jack Gilbert a lot of “serious” poets do: he's bombastic; he's unapologetically white, male, and romantic; he uses words like “heart” without irony; he's Christian, or at least he invokes the name of God; he has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. But I've kept going back to him since ... “Tear It Down” is one of my favorite love poems, maybe because it seems like it's about so much more than love. “By insisting on love, we spoil it, get ...
Jack Gilbert – July 1925 to November 13th, 2012 – Sing Going ... by Richard (2012/11/30 10:36)
A great hunger lay at the heart and genius of the American master poet Jack Gilbert, who, until his last years was little known, but in spite of his low-profile, was long considered one of the foremost poets of his generation. ... (Unless otherwise stated all poems and excerpts from poems by Jack Gilbert used in this post are from -Transgressions, Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books, Highgreen, UK, 2006). and from Tear It Down ………………………………………Love is not ...
Jack Gilbert's Great Fire | Tin House by Matthew Dickman (2012/11/20 08:00)
I had never even heard of Jack Gilbert until a couple years ago when you suggested i read Tear It Down, a poem he'd written about marriage in Great Fires: “We can break through marriage into marriage.” After that first flash, ...
Jack Gilbert, A Few Favorites | Communique by Mika (2012/11/18 03:20)
Tear It Down. We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond ... finally explain why the couples on their tombs are smiling. And maybe not. When the thousands of mysterious Sumerian tablets were translated, they seemed to be business records. But what if they are poems or psalms?
A Poem For Saturday « The Dish by Andrew Sullivan (2012/11/17 12:51)
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. / It's the same when love comes to an end, / or the marriage fails and people say / they knew it was a mistake, that everybody / said it would never work. That she was / old enough to know ...
spread it like a roll of nickels: Reading Jack Gilbert by Rob Taylor (2012/11/16 06:52)
Like many poets, after a while many of his poems begin to appear as parodies of his earlier work. About three-quarters of my way through the book, I put it down, picked up my notebook, and wrote: A Jack Gilbert Poem Gianna is like Linda. ... But then "Tear it Down". But then "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart". That last one one of the foundational poems in my life. A little bit of bedrock for my writing, and world view, and mental and emotional well being. And that's ...
Tear it Down « Ruminations in the Multiverse by Miguel Tejada-Flores (2012/11/14 22:47)
Tear it Down. Nov14 by Miguel Tejada-Flores. The poet Jack Gilbert died this week, in Berkeley, California. He was 87 years old. I don't recall how many years ago I started reading Jack Gilbert's work. I should say re-reading, not reading: the thing ... you read them, you have to re-read them. At least, I do. If there is a better way to pay tribute to a writer than by needing and wanting to re-read his or her words, I can't think of what it might be. This poem is among my favorites. Tear It Down ...
Happy 100 Days: 49 | SmirkPretty by smirkpretty (2012/11/14 19:50)
Make your own warmth and notice the way your breath stays close for a beat or two before it leaves you forever. Tear it Down by Jack Gilbert. We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the ...
Remembering Jack Gilbert, Moby-Dick Marathon ... - Poets & Writers by esmithrakoff (2012/11/14 13:07)
Poet Jack Gilbert has passed away at age eighty-seven. The Los Angeles Times touches on Gilbert's singular life and career. In memory of Jack Gilbert, Tin House posted Gilbert's poem "Tear it Down" yesterday on its Tumblr.
Jack Gilbert | Mostly in the Afternoon by Margaret Diehl (2012/11/14 09:04)
My sorrows go squishy, but they have their own tenacity. The sinews of his poems make me feel my own muscle. Words can do things. Rest in peace, Mr. Gilbert. I wish I'd met you. You were a very great man. Tear it Down ...
Jack Gilbert - A Longhouse Birdhouse by Bob Arnold / Longhouse (2012/11/14 05:12)
Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert. We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. ... A favorite poem, Bob. I have read all of them. Critics say he didn't write many poems for a life time but who's counting? America and Pittsburgh sure knew him, including, I believe it was a Pacific Northwest Native American tribe who wanted Jack Gilbert ...
Messages: Poem-A-Day: Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert by Messages (2012/11/14 04:23)
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. / It's the same when love comes to an end, / or the marriage fails and people say / they knew it was a mistake, that everybody / said it would never work. That she was / old enough to know ...
Traces and Tracks: Jack Gilbert (1925-November 13, 2012) by Lindsay Cuff (2012/11/13 20:31)
He was a poet who wanted poems to matter. Poems that could change a reader's life. And they often did. Jack Gilbert died today. TEAR IT DOWN We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining ...
Tear It Down | - Sweetoniontart.com by sweet onion tart (2012/11/13 14:48)
Love is not enough. We die and are put into the earth forever. We should insist while there is still time. We must eat through the wildness of her sweet body already in our bed to reach the body within that body. Jack Gilbert. Print Friendly. Related posts: This is just to say · Old Family Recipes, New Husband's Birthday, and Breakfast · Eating whorish pasta at the table · seek beauty. This entry was posted in poem. Bookmark the permalink. ← Brought to you by summer ...
RUDEMAN ON ICE: Remembering Jack Gilbert by O. Fenby (2012/11/13 14:26)
As much as it makes my cynical post-writer wannabe self cringe with embarrassment to admit it, a poem changed my life. And it was a poem penned by Jack Gilbert. Here's how it went down: In the summer of 1992, I packed ...
Vitro Nasu » Blog Archive » Jack Gilbert R.I.P - Eggplant by funlitmus (2012/11/13 13:45)
Jack Gilbert was 87. “A city of brick and tired wood,” he called his native city. “Primitive Pittsburgh.” Many of his poems have a straightforward lyricism that grabs you right away. According to a piece about the poet that was published just yesterday in the Los Angeles Times, ... “All Jack ever wanted to know was that he was awake—that the trees in bloom were almond trees—and to walk down the road to get breakfast,” Gregg, who remains close to Gilbert, says.
POTD - Going There by Jack Gilbert (R.I.P.) — 5 things I learned today by Ryan Nance (2012/11/13 13:44)
After struggling with Alzheimer's for a number of years, Jack Gilbert passed this morning (November 13, 2012) in San Francisico, CA. This is the second of his poems we've featured here ("Tear It Down" was the first).
Live Nude Poems: Jack Gilbert Dead by Rusty Barnes (2012/11/13 11:10)
Yes, Jack Gilbert. That's yours. The poet is 87 and small in his wheelchair, mostly unable to talk, his brain diminished by disease. He is dying. But as for anyone with Alzheimer's or its variants, the end has not come quickly. It is a long receding. More. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. 1 comment: Khara House November 14, 2012 at 8:21 PM. I heard this news, as well, and reading that article brought tears to my eyes. What dedication. What poet.
Poet Jack Gilbert and the tragedy of Alzheimers - colin penter by Colin Penter (2012/11/12 17:00)
"If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,/ we should give thanks that the end has magnitude./ We must admit there will be music despite everything." Jack Gilbert from A Brief for the Defense. Back in May I posted this piece about the poetry of US poet Jack Gilbert. So was saddened to read this moving piece in the Los Angeles Times about Jack Gilbert's struggle with Alzheimers Disease. ..... "The markets have ruled for a third of a century but it has all ended in tears.
Jack Gilbert: Trying To Have Something Left Over. | Paparoa's Blog by paparoa (2012/11/10 09:27)
Yesterday I went to see one of my favourite American poets in his rest home in Berkeley: Jack Gilbert. ... I walked down the street weeping, passing the postman, saying hello and wondering if he saw my tears. I'm sure he sees ...
comments - the habit of being by admin (2012/11/07 09:44)
the habit of being » :: finding poetry in the everday :: Masthead header. home · about · bookshop · the love lists; categories. a moveable feast · i love lists! ... the heart knows. by redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. we can break through the marriage into marriage, by insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond affection and wade mouth-deep into love. we must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. jack gilbert, tear it down. +++++ ...
Dragonfly's Poetry & Prolixity: Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert by Marion (2012/10/06 08:36)
Tear It Down By Jack Gilbert We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage.
Mu | The Ordinary by Jonathan Hecht (2012/10/05 15:26)
In “Tear It Down” Jack Gilbert writes that “We should insist … Newer: Far From Perfect →. Doenjang ... P.S. Totally reading some Marie Howe tonight at a poetry/fall (think: m'f'ing gourds) celebration. SHE IS THE BEST OF ALL.
Fridaaay! Freeforall | Margo Roby: Wordgathering by margo roby (2012/09/28 06:04)
On The Poetry Mixtape Donna gives us Jack Gilbert's The Great Fires, a poem she read while trying to find where the heck her muse has gone. Her prompts are both fun, so head over to check it out. As with all ... While there, copy the words down and write a poem. You might do that before you read Alexie's poem. Visit to see ... The name of the poem is actually “Tear it Down” from the book The Great Fires. Jack Gilbert is amazing… Reply · margo roby. 29/09/2012 at ...
tuesday's poetry from prompt | naked by val dering rojas (2012/09/25 01:32)
So, during the time I wasn't buying 99 cent toys, coloring, or driving, driving, driving, I was working on this prompt from Donna Vorreyer, which sprung from the poem Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert: Use the line “love is not ...
Poetry Mixtape 36: When In Doubt | Put Words Together. Make ... by Donna Vorreyer (2012/09/23 15:52)
For me, this weekend, it was Jack Gilbert's The Great Fires. ... This “underworld” beneath the world, the one that Gilbert urges us to find by tearing it down, is the world that gets lost in day-to-day routines and distractions.
Jack Gilbert - Chicks Dig Poetry by Sandra (2012/06/25 11:05)
Jack Gilbert. This is not the first time I've shared my love of his work on the blog, but I'll say it again: Jack Gilbert is such an important poet to me. I was writing like him before I even know what he was writing like; finding his work made me feel at home, at last. If my eulogy placed my poems in lineage with his, I would die happy. So when the Collected ... tears running down the cheeks. And I say, nevertheless. With the crowd-swell of rich small moments, Gilbert detonates ...
Tear It Down « B r k l y n G i r l by brklyngirl (2012/05/11 07:35)
I read an interesting “response” poem today to a poem I know intimately; Jack Gilbert's Tear It Down, from his book, The Great Fires. I read The Great Fires in Graduate school and it influenced me deeply. It's written in the voice ...
Alexis Paige/Creative Nonfiction | ragazine.cc by admin (2012/04/28 17:54)
“We should insist while there is still time,” Jack Gilbert says in his poem “Tear It Down”(line 16). He says of his hometown, “Only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh. / Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound / of raccoon tongues ...
What Poem Is in Your Pocket? - NYTimes.com by By KATHERINE SCHULTEN (2012/04/26 04:11)
Some ideas for Poem in Your Pocket Day, which is Thursday, and an invitation to post what you're carrying here on the blog, or on Twitter with the hashtag #pocketpoem. ... April 26, 2012 12:38 pm Link. Today's poem-of-the day in Poem Flow is by the wonderful American poet, Jack Gilbert. Horses at Midnight Without a Moon (2005). http://poemflow.com/ ..... Kills at Least 51. What is a “supercell” storm? How many tornadoes touched down in four states this weekend?
My Life in Paradise: Poetry Notebook by Amanda (2012/04/25 17:43)
Poetry Notebook. Life Keeps Going Description These poems are about life, and show that life doen't end until you die, so while you live your life will keep going on. ... by Dorothea Tanning. Tear It Down by JACK GILBERT ...
Ignore the Eclipse - The School of Unlearning by jack (2012/04/24 00:00)
–Jack Gilbert from the poem “Tear it Down”. Question #23: In 2003, what money-losing product far exceeded its sales projections for the year in spite of the fact that manufacturer made no material upgrades to the product and ...
oriana-poetry: WE HAVE ALREADY LIVED IN THE REAL PARADISE by oriana (2012/04/07 14:10)
Gilbert puts it best: GETTING AWAY WITH IT. We have already lived in the real paradise. Horses in the empty summer street. Me eating the hot wurst I couldn't afford, in frozen Munich , tears dropping. We can remember. ... Hands down. Flourishing. ~ Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven. Gilbert deliberately chooses non-spectacular details: horses in the empty summer street, eating a hot sausage on a freezing day, “the voices trailing away to dinner, / calling faintly in the ...
oriana-poetry: FATE VERSUS DESTINY by oriana (2012/03/18 14:18)
the steps of a Hong Kong bridge, she fell, and the thousand-year-old ring shattered on the concrete. When she told him, stunned and tears running down her face, he said, Don't cry. I'll get you something better. ~ Jack Gilbert ...
Works of blood-and-beauty… | Debi Cimo by debicimo (2012/03/14 19:00)
~from “Tear it Down”. Jack Gilbert takes you, holds you captive for a moment in his works of blood-and-beauty, and will keep you enticed. As all incredible poetry should. Posted in momentarily apropos, observations, reviews | ...
Love Poems That “Should” Be Known By “Everyone” Need Revision ... by Scott Kinder-Pyle (2012/02/14 08:00)
I wonder if Whitney Houston knew, if the musical artist knew what the London Times recently has said that “everyone should know” — that certain “Love Poems” are requisites for understanding the import of Valentine's Day. Judging from her own song lyrics, it would .... her mouth twisted down and tears started. “Do we have to?” He canceled. Jane said ... and it tears me up every time I read from it. Another favorite love poem of mine is “Michiko Dead” by Jack Gilbert.
lovedog ranch: Friday Poem by Brooklyn (2012/02/03 09:39)
Friday Poem. A little passion for your Friday... Tear It Down. We find out the heart only by dismantling what. the heart knows. By redefining the morning,. we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through ...
"Tear It Down" by Jack Gilbert | MODERN ROMANCE by Robby (2012/01/17 10:23)
"Tear It Down" by Jack Gilbert. For the next few days, I will be constantly switching from busy and frantic to calm and unoccupied. I took my French midterm and Fitness final this morning. I have musical rehearsal in a few hours. ... A poem for my grandfather. 5. Tasteful Nudes by Dave Hill. A fragment, an interview, and some music. 6. PLACE by Jorie Graham. "I was happy young, when all I didn't know needed doing had been done." Paris, I Love You But You're ...
Hayden's Ferry Review Blog: Contributor Spotlight: Tory Adkisson by Beth Staples (2012/01/10 07:00)
Somehow, this poem came to me, a poem that seems rough and tender, that seems rooted in the body but reaches beyond it, as Jack Gilbert says in his remarkable poem “Tear It Down,” to “the body within that body.” Briefly ...
Rage Against the Routine | Text Matters by Xenia (2011/11/15 13:49)
Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert. Tear It Down. Jack Gilbert. We find out the heart only by dismantling what. the heart knows. By redefining the morning,. we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. ... To make it last longer, I took a break to read some contemporary American poetry, and I think this piece by Priscilla Becker is really beautiful, considering all the talk of death in the last weeks, both in hypothetical, playful, and ...
The Other Poems interview with Paul Legault | HTMLGIANT by Guest Post: Sam Ross (2011/10/05 11:19)
Even conversations held in a common language (like ours, whether we're face-to-face or not) require acts of translation–or acts of faith (which reminds me of the Jack Gilbert poem “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart”). Do you ...
Interview with Jeanann Verlee (Racing Hummingbirds) | MODERN ... by Robby (2011/09/22 14:10)
It is here that the process begins again for me and my editors – we effectively start over with the most careful attention to craft to ensure the poems are doing their best work to tell the stories effectively. 2. .... "Tear It Down" by Jack Gilbert. Where age comes in. 4. Interview with Brad Listi (The Nervous Breakdown, Other People). "Man & Bear", etc. "The frame story is that I am 14 and Michael Jackson is dying. I am hiding from a boy nearly 4 years my senior and using to ...
The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham ... - modern romance by Robby (2011/09/20 03:49)
Jorie Graham was one of the first poets that I truly felt understood what I was attempting to create in my own writing, though we are certainly not on the same level, seeing that she has won a Pulitzer Prize and currently teaches at Harvard. .... " Tear It Down" by Jack Gilbert. Where age comes in. 4. Interview with Brad Listi (The Nervous Breakdown, Other People). "Man & Bear", etc. "The frame story is that I am 14 and Michael Jackson is dying. I am hiding from a boy ...
STORM SURGE ON THE MIND: Words for Waiting (For/Out) a Storm ... by Sara Hughes (2011/08/28 22:31)
We hear an inspired Dr. B read her take on rain from immersion in these poems, Jack Gilbert's “Tear It Down,” and two poems on rain the Hollywood way, rain in films: Don Paterson's “Rain,” and Lawrence Raab's “Why It Often ...
Dilly-dallying: Poet of the Hour: Jack Gilbert by Dilly (2011/08/05 09:09)
Poet of the Hour: Jack Gilbert. With Poet of the Hour I'm going to try and put a spotlight on the work of poets that are fairly new to me. However they may not necessarily be new to you, so apologies if this be the case. ... Tear it Down We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond affection ...
Interview with Emma Straub (Other People We Married) | MODERN ... by Robby (2011/08/04 17:25)
It was a quick exchange, and I would've kept it going forever if I could, but Ms. Straub has better things to do than converse with overemotional teenage boys who hide in their bedrooms and write angsty poetry. .... "Tear It Down" by Jack Gilbert. Where age comes in. 4. Interview with Brad Listi (The Nervous Breakdown, Other People). "Man & Bear", etc. "The frame story is that I am 14 and Michael Jackson is dying. I am hiding from a boy nearly 4 years my senior and ...
Racing Hummingbirds by Jeanann Verlee & Other People We ... by Robby (2011/07/29 17:53)
At a few points, Verlee writes that the entirety of her poems are autobiographical, but she writes in the third person, because saying 'I' would make it that much harder. .... "Tear It Down" by Jack Gilbert. Where age comes in. 4. Interview with Brad Listi (The Nervous Breakdown, Other People). "Man & Bear", etc. "The frame story is that I am 14 and Michael Jackson is dying. I am hiding from a boy nearly 4 years my senior and using to camouflage myself a mall-sized ...
Why I love… Jack Gilbert | Part-broken, Part-whole by mentalexotica (2011/06/22 04:30)
Why I love… Jack Gilbert. Who else will give me quiet tears shed for the beauty of words? Who else will churn the milk of my heart with the tenderness of a down feather? Who but you, Jack, can reach inside my chest, pull out ...
Interview with Lenore Zion (author of My Dead Pets Are Interesting ... by Robby (2011/06/21 05:27)
A poem for my grandfather. 5. Tasteful Nudes by Dave Hill. A fragment, an interview, and some music. 6. PLACE by Jorie Graham. "I was happy young, when all I didn't know needed doing had been done." Paris, I Love You But You're ... "Tear It Down" by Jack Gilbert. Where age comes in. 4. Interview with Brad Listi (The Nervous Breakdown, Other People). "Man & Bear", etc. "The frame story is that I am 14 and Michael Jackson is dying. I am hiding from a boy nearly 4 ...
Plushies and Poetry, Cats and Dogs | Text Matters by Xenia (2011/06/16 13:57)
29. Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert. Tear It Down. Jack Gilbert. We find out the heart only by dismantling what. the heart knows. By redefining the morning,. we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through ...
A Minor Language by Priscilla Becker | Text Matters by Xenia (2011/05/23 21:30)
To make it last longer, I took a break to read some contemporary American poetry, and I think this piece by Priscilla Becker is really beautiful, considering all the talk of death in the last weeks, both in hypothetical, playful, and ... Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert. Tear It Down. Jack Gilbert. We find out the heart only by dismantling what. the heart knows. By redefining the morning,. we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage.
10 May 2011 | Poem of the Day by Mik J. mcconnell (2011/05/09 13:06)
Tear It Down -- / We find out the heart only by dismantling what / the heart knows. By redefining the morning, / we find a morning that comes just after darkness. / We can break through marriage into marriage. / By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond ... enough. We die and are put into the earth forever. / We should insist while there is still time. We must / eat through the wildness of her sweet body already / in our bed to reach the body within the body. / -- Jack Gilbert.
this is not the six word novel: Poet Visit: Hannah Lowe by about me (2011/04/04 03:03)
I really enjoyed your poems 'Fist' and 'Caterpillars' in the most recent issue of the Rialto, and I spied your poem 'Chloe's Phantom' over on Ink, Sweat and Tears, and 'Ink' [which I love] which came second in the SQL competition: ... If I want to sit down and write, the first thing I do is read. ... There's a few poets I always go back to – one is Jack Gilbert, an American poet, although he lived for much of his life in other places, often in seclusion, and has published rarely.
The Integrity of a Poem | MODERN ROMANCE by Robby (2011/03/26 05:11)
Interview with Laura Harrington (Alice Bliss). 2. Review of Night Swim by Jessica Keener (posted at The Nervous Breakdown). Interview with Samuel Amadon (Like a Sea). "Tear It Down" by Jack Gilbert. Where age comes in ...
Books I Am Reading, Stories I Am Writing, Thoughts I Am Thinking ... by Robby (2011/03/13 05:35)
The way you word a poem, the way the lines sequence, the way the lines break, can completely change its meaning. ... "Tear It Down" by Jack Gilbert. Where age comes in. 4. Interview with Brad Listi (The Nervous Breakdown, Other People). " Man & Bear", etc. "The frame story is that I am 14 and Michael Jackson is dying. I am hiding from a boy nearly 4 years my senior and using to camouflage myself a mall-sized advertisement of Tyra Banks, so of course, instead of ...
Got Shares? (GotShares.com): Social Network: Battle of the Sexes ... by k_yew (2011/03/08 12:27)
Women tend to believe the aforementioned issues will resolve themselves. Bonus I: Jack Gilbert, from "Tear It Down": "We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows...By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond ...
thisandthatandmuse: Tear It Down by Anand Vishwanadha (2011/03/05 12:22)
By Jack Gilbert from The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992, found on www.poets.org, here. Posted by Anand Vishwanadha at 11:22 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: Jack Gilbert, My favorite ...
Factoring In The Hard Wiring. A Ruckus. Jack Gilbert. | Mr. Blue's Blog by directdavidblue (2010/10/13 22:53)
Factoring In The Hard Wiring. A Ruckus. Jack Gilbert. In Uncategorized on October 14, 2010 at 5:53 am. POETRY! It's something everyone learns to like openly or secretly, quickly or slowly, calmly or intensely BUT always permanently. How .... [ Tear It Down]. We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond ...
Convenience Love Poem | Text Matters by Xenia (2010/09/06 21:13)
29. Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert. Tear It Down. Jack Gilbert. We find out the heart only by dismantling what. the heart knows. By redefining the morning,. we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through ...
The Sudden Breeze: Tear It Down by thesuddenbreeze (2010/07/16 09:03)
Tear It Down. We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond ... We must eat through the wildness of her sweet body already in our bed to reach the body within that body. –Jack Gilbert Loving this poem I found via superforest. Posted by Alia Adistya at 11:03 PM Labels: Books and Poetry ...
Feel Free to Read: Tear It Down by Glenn Buttkus (2010/04/15 15:35)
What we see, we have already "read" as our visual cortex filters our perceptions down through the doors of our experiences. What we read is immediately transposed perceptually to .... is not enough. We die and are put into the earth forever. We should insist while there is still time. We must eat through the wildness of her sweet body already in our bed to reach the body within that body. Jack Gilbert Posted over on American Poems. Posted by Glenn Buttkus at 3:35 PM ...
AppleHouse Poetry Workshop: Informal analysis of Jack Gilbert's ... by Lynne Rees (2010/04/13 02:27)
Informal analysis of Jack Gilbert's 'Hunger'. The title of the poem is abstract but it carries an emotional weight – I immediately think of starvation, of need, while my initial response to the poem on the page, the vertical shape of it ...
The Compass Rose: Jack Gilbert - It's Later Than You Think [Part II] by Curtis Faville (2010/04/07 08:24)
For the better part of his life, Jack Gilbert rejected the standard literary career, in favor of a kind of spiritual retreat, choosing a modest life, an attention to the detail of living privately, intimately, over the theatre of approbation and ... but the benefits of aesthetic celibacy aren't what Gilbert was after. For a poet as committed to convulsive finalities and verdicts as Gilbert is, the drama of epitaphs is irresistable: OVID IN TEARS. Love is like a garden in the heart, he said.
Prehistory | Text Matters by Xenia (2010/02/04 00:32)
Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert. Tear It Down. Jack Gilbert. We find out the heart only by dismantling what. the heart knows. By redefining the morning,. we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. ... To make it last longer, I took a break to read some contemporary American poetry, and I think this piece by Priscilla Becker is really beautiful, considering all the talk of death in the last weeks, both in hypothetical, playful, and ...
Unlearning 101: 20 More Quotes on Unlearning by Jack Uldrich (2010/02/03 15:49)
Jack Gilbert from the poem “Tear it down”. “It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.” -- Martin H. Fisher. “The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
An Excerpt from "Western Disburbances: Bruce Nauman's Singular ... by Xenia (2010/02/02 21:49)
Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert. Tear It Down. Jack Gilbert. We find out the heart only by dismantling what. the heart knows. By redefining the morning,. we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. ... To make it last longer, I took a break to read some contemporary American poetry, and I think this piece by Priscilla Becker is really beautiful, considering all the talk of death in the last weeks, both in hypothetical, playful, and ...
O City (My Trip) - Chicks Dig Poetry by Sandra (2009/12/09 22:20)
First, a poem by Jack Gilbert: TEAR IT DOWN We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into ...
Ethershop, Fall 2009 » Not the Color, But the Stain by rachaeltaylor (2009/11/22 13:50)
Review of Jack Gilbert's The Great Fires. Jack Gilbert has said volumes in only four books of poetry. He began writing poetry at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was admitted due to a secretarial mistake. Shortly after the publication of his first book, View of Jeopardy (1962) Gilbert won a Guggenheim fellowship and gained prestige in the San Francisco poetry scene. He then moved to ... He confronts loneliness in his poem “Tear it Down.” He writes …Love is not ...
Letter to the Editor by Stephen Yenser - Poetry Foundation by unknown (2009/10/30 08:48)
On the one hand, it disposes cavalierly of a whole (though characteristically undefined) period of Jorie Graham's poetry in a passing parenthesis (“the pretentiousness of Graham's recent work”), and on the other it commits nonsensical phrases (“ [Jack] Gilbert occasionally indulges a penchant”) and cliches (“the style is exhausting as well as exhaustive”), and along the way it mangles ... The ostensible problem is that Robbins is not bearing down on his prose.
abo sa dila: Four Poems by Jack Gilbert by mdlc (2009/09/22 01:27)
Four Poems by Jack Gilbert. Tuesday, September 22, 2009. 1. Tear It Down We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through ...
Poetics and Ruminations: An Analysis of a Poem by Jack Gilbert by Turk (2009/06/11 08:28)
Turk said... / I don't know what you're saying because whatever you intended doesn't show up in your post, as you can see for yourself. I have edited nothing here. / January 06, 2010 at 09:33 AM / Turk said... / Everybody ...
Little Epic Against Oblivion: "All of it." by Josh (2009/05/22 05:06)
dissertation) adviser for coffee yesterday afternoon and had a sprawling conversation about poetic form & structure, David Wojahn's Gulf Coast interview, the Greeks & Horace, and "Tradition and the Individual Talent," ... Hall Eight, he saw the face in a basement window, tears running down the cheeks. And I say, nevertheless. Jack Gilbert from The Great Fires Prayer to the Good Poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, my good secret, Now my father, a good man in Ohio, ...
Issa's Untidy Hut: Jack Gilbert Tribute Reading by Issa's Untidy Hut (2009/05/18 13:42)
In Views of Jeopardy Hunger Alone Refusing Heaven Ovid in Tears Megan O'Rourke Tear It Down The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart Married Winter in the Night Fields Gerald Stern Love Poem The Lives of Famous Men ...
Poem-A-Day: Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina by Jack Gilbert by pigurilho (2009/04/01 01:50)
with two zinc buckets. Down the path, / past the cow by the foundation where / the fine people's house was before / they arranged to have it burned down. / To the neighbor's cool well. Would / come back with pails too heavy, ...
Tear It Down | Bluedragonfly10 by bluedragonfly10 (2009/02/02 21:20)
Tear It Down. 2 February 2009 by bluedragonfly10. We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting on love ... We should insist while there is still time. We must eat through the wildness of her sweet body already in our bed to reach the body within the body. ……………………………………………………………. Jack Gilbert (born 1925) ...
Denise Duhamel's Revision of Asian American Poetics | Celadon ... by ktanemura (2008/12/07 21:54)
They are better than, say, Jack Gilbert's poems to his Japanese wife, because they are politicized, without being bogged down in identity politics. ... is really about singing without tears, not the virtues of corn chips.” This poem ...
Invitation to Poetry: "There will be music despite everything" « Abbey ... by Christine (2008/08/25 00:00)
Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the image and invitation on your blog and encourage others to come join the party! The title from this post is a line from Jack Gilbert's beautiful poem A Brief for the ...
Eyewear: Poetry Focus: Jack Gilbert by Todd Swift (2008/07/27 06:48)
Out of the clean light down? / and then, surrounded / by the closing beasts / and readying his lyre / should notice, suddenly, / they had no ears. / Gilbert's solitude was not absolute: he was married twice, first to the poet.
One Train May Hide Another- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More by unknown (2008/02/11 08:06)
In a poem, one line may hide another line, As at a crossing, one train may hide another train. That is, if you are waiting to cross The tracks, wait to do it for one moment at Least after the first train is gone. And so when you read Wait until you ...
Previous Entry - mellesque - LiveJournal by mellesque (2007/12/11 12:36)
here's the most recent dialogue of poems. so. damn. lovely. so lovely that i just had to share. Jack Gilbert-- Tear It Down We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a ...
A Glance at Jack Gilbert's “A Stubborn Ode” | Puddlehead Speaks by puddlehead (2007/06/05 10:20)
Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992. New York: Knopf, 1994. Here's the poem: A Stubborn Ode. All of it. The sane woman under the bed with the rat. that is licking off the peanut butter she puts on her. front teeth for him. The beggars of Calcutta blinding. their children while somewhere people are rich. and eating ... tears running down the cheeks. And I say, nevertheless. The stubbornness here is the speaker's refusal to succumb to the sorrow suggested by ...
Exultations and Difficulties: Some Beautiful Defiance - Typepad by timbo (2007/05/02 20:06)
Transgressions: Selected Poems by Jack Gilbert Bloodaxe Books, £9.95 Review by Luke Kennard Gilbert is one of those beautiful curmudgeonly American recluses who has published four books in fifty years. He's written great lines like, “The horse wades in the... ... and tears running down her face, he said, 'Don't cry. I'll get you something better.' It's really hard to make happiness readable or interesting. Even despite the fact that we're probably too squeamish about ...
Tear It Down- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More by unknown (2007/01/17 12:17)
We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond affection ...
Coming to the End of His Triumph: A Retrospective on Jack Gilbert ... by unknown (2007/01/09 16:26)
What if Orpheus, / confident in the hard- / found mastery, / should go down into Hell? / Out of the clean light down? / And then, surrounded / by the closing beasts / and readying his lyre, / should notice, suddenly, / they had no ears.
Integral Options Cafe: Sunday Poet: Jack Gilbert by WH (2006/08/06 06:15)
You introduced me to Jack Gilbert roughly a month ago when you posted "Tear It Down." Soon after I bought Refusing Heaven, and you happened to post some of my favorites from the book. It is truly some great poetry. Keep it ...
huskyPoet: lines from Jack Gilbert by huskypoet (2006/04/18 21:36)
Jack Gilbert, from his poem "Tear it Down" (The Great Fires) His bio does not include that he was a visiting professor some years ago for Eastern's MFA program. After he left, Jonathan Johnson took over that office...and I've ...
9:00 AM - the dust congress by hackmuth (2005/12/16 07:00)
Tombstone as a Lonely Charm, Part 2 --by d.a. levy you had the deepest eyes as a child when you cautiously looked up at the sun and restlessly wrote the world's greatest poem and your brothers drinking in the clear water of the universe ... Tear It Down -- by Jack Gilbert We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting ...
XDA: Poem of the Month by Roger Fraley (2005/11/29 07:37)
Tear It Down / We find out the heart only by dismantling what / the heart knows. By redefining the morning, / we find a morning that comes just after darkness. / We can break through marriage into marriage. / By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond ... eat through the wildness of her sweet body already / in our bed to reach the body within that body. / Jack Gilbert / I have no idea what this means but I like how it sounds; and unlearning the constellations to see the stars is a cool thought.
Wedding Poems- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More by unknown (2005/05/22 17:00)
Wedding Poems. The "blessed bond of board and bed" is how Shakespeare once described marriage. "It is leviathan," wrote Denise Levertov on the same subject, "and we in its belly looking for joy." Or frantic Gregory Corso, imagining his ...
Jack Gilbert - A Fool in the Forest by George Wallace (2003/08/17 00:00)
In those long ago days when serious poetry coverage was something that was done even by a mass market outlet such as Esquire magazine, Jack Gilbert was a Name Poet at least briefly, but he has preferred (or been obliged, I can't .... sense that life is short, that everything ultimately goes wrong, but that the living of that life -- and perhaps the making of art, on which Gilbert is not often explicit -- makes all the difference, as in the concluding lines of “Tearing it Down:”.
The First Marriage- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More by unknown (1991/06/15 00:00)
by Petrarch. Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert. The Kiss by Stephen Dunn. The maidens came by Anonymous. To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet. To Sylvia, To Wed by Robert Herrick. Wedding Poems · When a Woman Loves a ...

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