{"id":18049,"date":"2025-09-08T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=18049"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:01:53","slug":"jack-gilbert-was-too-horny-to-be-a-metaphysical-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/jack-gilbert-was-too-horny-to-be-a-metaphysical-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"JACK GILBERT WAS TOO HORNY TO BE A METAPHYSICAL POET"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"t pg-1m0 pg-1x1 pg-1h3 pg-1y2 pg-1ff1 pg-1fs0 pg-1fc0 pg-1sc0 pg-1ls0 pg-1ws0\"><strong>JACK GILBERT WAS TOO HORNY TO BE A METAPHYSICAL POET<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"t pg-1m0 pg-1x1 pg-1h3 pg-1y3 pg-1ff1 pg-1fs0 pg-1fc0 pg-1sc0 pg-1ls0 pg-1ws0\">not that sex and metaphysics cancel each other out\u2014<br \/>\nhis was good news for Linda Gregg, until it wasn\u2019t.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t pg-1m0 pg-1x1 pg-1h3 pg-1y5 pg-1ff1 pg-1fs0 pg-1fc0 pg-1sc0 pg-1ls0 pg-1ws0\">Interviewer<span class=\"pg-1ff2\">:<br \/>\n<\/span>Did you and Linda ever collaborate?<\/div>\n<div class=\"t pg-1m0 pg-1x1 pg-1h3 pg-1y7 pg-1ff1 pg-1fs0 pg-1fc0 pg-1sc0 pg-1ls0 pg-1ws0\">JG<span class=\"pg-1ff2\">:<br \/>\n<\/span>We were intertwined. We read each other\u2019s poetry,<br \/>\nappreciated each other\u2019s poetry,<br \/>\ndiscarded each other\u2019s poetry.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t pg-1m0 pg-1x1 pg-1h3 pg-1y7 pg-1ff1 pg-1fs0 pg-1fc0 pg-1sc0 pg-1ls0 pg-1ws0\">(Quick shout-out to the procreative urge.<br \/>\nAre you gonna tell me the world doesn\u2019t hinge<br \/>\nand turn on it? I don\u2019t think you are.)<\/div>\n<div class=\"t pg-1m0 pg-1x1 pg-1h3 pg-1ye pg-1ff1 pg-1fs0 pg-1fc0 pg-1sc0 pg-1ls0 pg-1ws0\">That desire is ungovernable produces\u2014<br \/>\nor should I say begets\u2014fear. Also verse; some good,<br \/>\nsome not. Either way, learn to love that twinge<br \/>\nin your loins. I don\u2019t mean make it lord, I just mean<br \/>\nbless it. Whatever else may be true,<\/div>\n<div class=\"t pg-1m0 pg-1x1 pg-1h3 pg-1y13 pg-1ff1 pg-1fs0 pg-1fc0 pg-1sc0 pg-1ls0 pg-1ws0\">it has plans to prosper you, wants<br \/>\nfruitfulness, wants multiplicity<br \/>\nat least as much as God does,<br \/>\nmaybe more.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t pg-1m0 pg-1x1 pg-1h3 pg-1y17 pg-1ff1 pg-1fs0 pg-1fc0 pg-1sc0 pg-1ls0 pg-1ws0\">I\u2019ve inherited Jack and Linda\u2019s lettered<br \/>\nchildren. If you\u2019re reading this,<br \/>\nyou have too.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACK GILBERT WAS TOO HORNY TO BE A METAPHYSICAL POET not that sex and metaphysics cancel each other out\u2014 his was good news for Linda Gregg, until it wasn\u2019t. Interviewer: Did you and Linda ever collaborate? JG: We were intertwined. We read each other\u2019s poetry, appreciated each other\u2019s poetry, discarded each other\u2019s poetry. (Quick shout-out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":18050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3717,3937,3942,3951,4166,4748,4751,6086,6087,7303,7331,7341,9480,9965,9966],"class_list":["post-18049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-gilbert","tag-haley-hodges","tag-haley-hodges-cassandra-voices","tag-haley-hodges-poetry","tag-horny","tag-jack","tag-jack-giblert-poet","tag-metaphysical","tag-metaphysical-poetry-horny","tag-poem-about-jack-gilbert","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-too","tag-was","tag-was-jack-gilbert-a-metaphysical-poet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}