A review by nicolecaprice53
Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

3.25

Someone said “Gilbert’s at his best when he isn’t describing women” and I have to agree.

I only resonated with a handful of poems…
1. Failing and Flying
2. More Than Sixty
3. The Abandoned Valley
4. The Lost Hotels of Paris (“But it’s the having not the keeping that is the treasure.”)