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You have to write a poem. Everyone forgets that icarus also flew. Jack gilbert's views of jeopardy won the yale series of younger poets competition in 1962 and was nominated for a pulitzer prize.
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Being alive is so extraordinary i don't know. Jack gilbert's poem, failing and flying, read by simon russell beale, is a sparse and simple recollection of a marriage as it unravels over the course of a summer. Jack gilbert splits failing and flying into 25 lines, the poem comprising one continuous stanza. Yet, by actually framing the title as 'failing and flying', gilbert connects the idea of 'failing' with 'falling'.
