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Book, 2018
Current format, Book, 2018, First American edition., Available .
Book, 2018
Current format, Book, 2018, First American edition., Available . Offered in 0 more formats
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 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 , 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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