Title: Simply wonderful
Product review: I have both Monolithos and the Great Fires. I remember and reread poems from both these volumes, continuously. Not all the poems, for me, are memorable, but many are. This is much much better than average for most poetry books by the typically annointed "major" poets. Gilbert takes care and time to read, his words are set in, play out through space and silence. The grief and loss he expresses are not the point for me, most poetry is about this, but he implicates his own sentimentality. And I like the "form factor" of his poems, the line breaks, line lengths, etc. And finally, I like the way he approaches his "career" which seems, to be an "un-career." Very little self-promotion, conference hopping, log rolling, etc.
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