Selected Poems Of Thom Gunn

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571330065

Get Book

Selected Poems of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn Pdf

Thom Gunn's controlled used of form and the metaphysical was in evidence from his first collection, Fighting Terms, in 1954, which was widely regarded - perhaps not entirely accurately - as a contributor to 'The Movement' and the opposition to modernism. The same technical ability and formal prowess endured after he moved from Cambridge to San Francisco, though became, from The Sense of Movement (1959) onwards, shot through with a new mood of hedonism, freedom and the excesses of the gay and counter-cultural scenes of 1960s America in poems written in celebration of rock and roll, myth, and hallucinogenic drugs. The '80s saw a shift in this life with the devastation of the Aids epidemic, which claimed the lives of a number of Gunn's friends. Many of these friends are memorialised in the moving, passionate and humane collections of his later years; the Forward Prize-winning The Man With the Night Sweats, and Boss Cupid, Gunn's last collection, published in 2000.This Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, serves to honour a true original, a thrill-seeker in the language, and to exhibit the best of Thom Gunn's electric, powerful, intensely joyful poems.

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374258597

Get Book

Selected Poems by Thom Gunn Pdf

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.

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262557

Get Book

The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn Pdf

Thom Gunn's The Man With Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with a set of poems about the deaths of friends from AIDS. With their unflinching directness, compassion and grace, they are among the most moving statements yet to have been provoked by the disease.

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374605704

Get Book

The Letters of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn Pdf

The Letters of Thom Gunn presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry. “I write about love, I write about friendship,” remarked Thom Gunn. “I find that they are absolutely intertwined.” These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and they shed new light on “one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century” (Hugh Haughton, The Times Literary Supplement). The Letters of Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler, Michael Nott, and Clive Wilmer, reveals the evolution of Gunn’s work and illuminates the fascinating life that informed his poems: his struggle to come to terms with his mother’s suicide; settling in San Francisco and his complex relationship with England; his changing relationship with his life partner, Mike Kitay; the LSD trips that led to his celebrated collection Moly (1971); and the deaths of friends from AIDS that inspired the powerful, unsparing elegies of The Man with Night Sweats (1992).

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262564

Get Book

Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn Pdf

In some respects a sequel to The Man With Night Sweats, Boss Cupid is a memorialising of friends who have died, an anatomy of survival, and a self-portrait of the poet in age. The poems are written under the sign of Cupid, 'devious master of our bodies', but their intimacies are always heard against the sociable human hum of an entire community which Gunn depicts in poems of fluent grace, as formal as they are relaxed.

Author : Randall Mann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226503455

Get Book

Breakfast with Thom Gunn by Randall Mann Pdf

Aubade Those who lack a talent for love have come to walk the long Pier 7. Here at the end of the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow red of a pilot’s boat; the groan of a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poor translation that will not carry us across. What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feed only on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. Randall Mann’s Breakfast with Thom Gunn is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929–2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and California, but the backdrop is “pitiless,” the trees “thin and bloodless,” the words “like the icy water” of the San Francisco Bay. Mann, fiercely intelligent, open yet elusive, draws on the “graceful erosion” of both landscape and the body, on the beauty that lies in unbeauty. With audacity, anxiety, and unbridled desire, this gifted lyric poet grapples with dilemmas of the gay self embroiled in—and aroused by—a glittering, unforgiving subculture. Breakfast with Thom Gunnis at once formal and free, forging a sublime integrity in the fire of wit, intensity, and betrayal. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “We have before us a skillful, witty, passionate young poet. . . . Randall Mann is both attuned to and at odds with the natural world; he articulates the passions and predicaments of a self inside a massive, arousing, but sometimes brutal culture. And he accomplishes these things with buoyant lyric sensibilities and rejuvenating skills.”—Kenyon Review

Author : Thom Gunn,Ted Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571130941

Get Book

Selected Poems by Thom Gunn,Ted Hughes Pdf

First published in 1962 this selection, made by the poets themselves, draws on the volumes they had published up to that date and forms a valuable introduction to their work.

Author : Fulke Greville,Bradin Cormack
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780226308463

Get Book

The Selected Poems of Fulke Greville by Fulke Greville,Bradin Cormack Pdf

Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville (1554–1628) was an important member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although his poems, long out of print, are today less well known than those of Sidney, Spenser, or Shakespeare, Greville left an indelible mark on the world of Renaissance poetry, both in his love poems, which ably work within the English Petrarchan tradition, and in his religious meditations, which, along with the work of Donne and Herbert, stand as a highpoint of early Protestant poetics. Back in print for a new generation of scholars and readers, Thom Gunn’s selection of Greville’s short poems includes the whole of Greville’s lyric sequence, Caelica, along with choruses from some of Greville’s verse dramas. Gunn’s introduction places Greville’s thought in historical context and in relation to the existential anxieties that came to preoccupy writers in the twentieth century. It is as revealing about Gunn himself, and the reading of earlier English verse in the 1960s, as it is about Greville’s own poetic achievement. This reissue of Selected Poems of Fulke Greville is an event of the first order both for students of early British literature and for readers of Thom Gunn and English poetry generally.

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Faber & Faber Poetry
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0571327699

Get Book

Selected Poems by Thom Gunn Pdf

Thom Gunn has been described as 'one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century' (TLS). This 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. 'The poetry of Thom Gunn was much admired in his lifetime, and at the same time often misunderstood and underestimated. The scale of his achievement, and its uniqueness - a masterful Elizabethan lyric poet writing in the second half of the twentieth century - is just now becoming properly appreciated. Anonymous in voice, even in the service of the most intimate subject matter, acute in observation, particularly the urban experience, with San Francisco the principal site, Gunn is not merely the poet of the druggy '60s in California or the plague of the AIDS epidemic, but of the deeper-running themes, shared by Shakespeare, Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams and all his greatest exemplars, of the artist's moral and imaginative engagement with the world as it actually is, in the broadest possible sense, not as contemporary fashion might have it be. Which strikes me, who knew and loved the man and poet, as a kind of heroism.' August Kleinzahler 'Thom Gunn smuggled the lyric tradition out of post-war Britain, and gave it cool, gracious renaissance in California. His poetry evokes the wild life of the body with madrigal-like elegance.' Fiona Sampson 'Gunn's work illustrates with unusual clarity some of the debates poetry in English has pursued in [the twentieth] century - form versus improvisation, diction versus talk, the American way versus the English tradition, even, at times, authenticity versus art. To contain these contradictory impulses and . . . to have generated a body of work which anybody wanting to understand the period and identify some of its best poems will find essential reading - this is quite an achievement.' Sean O'Brien

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374126216

Get Book

Collected Poems by Thom Gunn Pdf

Assembles the most noteworthy and characteristic poems of a British-born poet who has lived in the United States since 1954

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374524335

Get Book

Collected Poems by Thom Gunn Pdf

This collection covers the span of Thom Gunn's remarkable poetic career over almost forty years. Gunn has made a speciality of playing style against subject as he deals with the out-of-control through tightly controlled meters and with the systematized through open forms.

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374538697

Get Book

New Selected Poems by Thom Gunn Pdf

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.

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262540

Get Book

The Passages of Joy by Thom Gunn Pdf

The Passages of Joy, published in 1982, saw Thom Gunn writing at the height of his powers. The poems combine personal directness with an apparently effortless technical assurance.

Author : Thomas Gunn
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781429021944

Get Book

Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses by Thomas Gunn Pdf

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Poet to Poet
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015069332701

Get Book

Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn Pdf

By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as provide a passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.