Description
Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though theres nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous time in which he lived. Gunns dozens of brilliantly realized poems about nature, friendship, literature, sexual love, and death are set against the ever-changing backdrop of San Franciscothe druggy, politically charged sixties and the plague years of AIDS in the eighties. Perhaps no contemporary poet was better equippedby temperament, circumstance, or poetic giftto engage the subjects of eros and thanatos than Thom Gunn. This new Selected Poems, edited and with an introduction by the poet August Kleinzahler, supplants the 1979 Selected, presenting more of the later work and providing a fuller retrospective account of the breadth and magnitude of Gunns extraordinary achievement.
Author: Thom Gunn
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 03/31/2009
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.46w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780374258597
Language: English
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