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By Gunn, Thom & Kleinzahler, August
- ISBN
- 978-0-37425-859-7
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 6, 2009
Serious readers of contemporary poetry who agreed on nothing else could agree to admire Thom Gunn. When Gunn died, age 75, in 2004, critics in his native England remembered a tough young writer who gained fast fame in the 1950s, whose cool pentameters praised motorcycles and Elvis; Americans remembered the certainly learned, and yet perpetually youthful poet who made San Francisco his permanent home, a celebrant of gay life in the 1970s, and an elegist of HIV and AIDS in the 1990s, his extreme topics s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
