Thom Gunn
1) Boss Cupid
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"Gunn, who grew up in England in the '30s and '40s, and has long resided in San Francisco, remains ... famous for his poetic chronicles of gay male lust, love, grief and urban life, and for his ... reader-friendly poems in traditional forms. ... Gunn treats his readers to lovely stanzaic lyric, amiable Ben Jonson-style epistles, cogent blank-verse essays and taut quatrains; he offers up, too, ... descriptions of aging hustlers, versatile bartenders,...
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A new selection of poems by the celebrated gay poet.
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...