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New Selected Poems

✍ Scribed by Thom Gunn

Book ID
111089756
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Weight
485 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374719845
ASIN
B07BVN51WG

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✦ Synopsis

A new selection of poems by the celebrated gay poet
Thom Gunn has been described as "one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century" (Times Literary Supplement). Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's 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.
Gunn's dozens of brilliantly realized poems about nature, friendship, literature, sexual love, and death are set against the ever-changing backdrop of San Franciscoβ€”the druggy, politically charged sixties and the plague years of AIDS in the eighties. Perhaps no contemporary poet was better equippedβ€”by temperament, circumstance, or poetic giftβ€”to engage the subjects of eros and thanatos than Thom Gunn.
This New Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent the full arc of Gunn's inimitable career.

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