Selected Poems - Thom Gunn - Books - Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 9780374258597 - March 31, 2009
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Selected Poems First edition

Thom Gunn

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Selected Poems First edition

Thom 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 Francisco?the druggy, politically charged sixties and the plague years of AIDS in the eighties. Perhaps no contemporary poet was better equipped?by temperament, circumstance, or poetic gift?to 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 Gunn?s extraordinary achievement.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 31, 2009
ISBN13 9780374258597
Publishers Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 128
Dimensions 140 × 210 × 10 mm   ·   163 g
Language English  
Contributor August Kleinzahler

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