New selected poems

New selected poems

Thom Gunn

Book - 2018

Gunn's "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 [he]"--Publisher marketing.

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Subjects
English poetry > 20th century.
Poetry.
Genres
Poetry
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018.
Language
English
Main Author
Thom Gunn (author)
Edition
First American edition
Item Description
"Originally published in 2017 by Faber & Faber Limited, Great Britain, as Selected Poems."
Physical Description
xlv, 284 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780374220563
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations and References
  • Introduction
  • from Fighting Terms (1954)
  • The Wound
  • Carnal Knowledge
  • Lerici
  • Tamer and Hawk
  • Incident on a Journey
  • from The Sense Of Movement (1957)
  • On the Move
  • At the Back of the North Wind
  • Autumn Chapter in a Novel
  • The Silver Age
  • Elvis Presley
  • The Allegory of the Wolf Boy
  • Jesus and his Mother
  • To Yvor Winters, 1955
  • Vox Humana
  • from My Sad Captains (1961)
  • In Santa Maria del Popolo
  • Innocence
  • Modes of Pleasure ('New face, strange face, for my unrest')
  • The Byrnies
  • Claus von Stauffenberg
  • Flying Above California
  • Considering the Snail
  • The Feel of Hands
  • My Sad Captains
  • Uncollected (1960s)
  • From an Asian Tent
  • from Positives (1965)
  • The Old Woman
  • from Touch (1967)
  • The Goddess
  • Touch
  • Misanthropos
  • The Last Man
  • Memoirs of the World
  • Elegy on the Dust
  • The First Man
  • Pierce Street
  • from Moly (1971)
  • Rites of Passage
  • Moly
  • For Signs
  • Three
  • From the Wave
  • Street Song
  • Grasses
  • The Discovery of the Pacific
  • Sunlight
  • from Jack Straw's Castle (1976)
  • Diagrams
  • Iron Landscapes (and the Statue of Liberty)
  • Last Days at Teddington
  • Jack Straw's Castle
  • An Amorous Debate
  • Autobiography
  • Yoko
  • from The Passages Of Joy (1982)
  • Expression
  • Sweet Things
  • June
  • San Francisco Streets
  • Transients and Residents
  • Falstaff
  • Crystal
  • Crosswords
  • Interruption
  • Talbot Road
  • Night Taxi
  • from The Man With Night Sweats (1992)
  • The Hug
  • The Differences
  • Skateboard
  • To Isherwood Dying
  • The Stealer
  • Nasturtium
  • The Man with Night Sweats
  • Lament
  • Terminal
  • Her Pet
  • The J Car
  • The Missing
  • from Boss Cupid (2000)
  • Duncan
  • My Mother's Pride
  • The Gas-poker
  • To Donald Davie in Heaven
  • The Artist as an Old Man
  • A Wood near Athens
  • Dancing David
  • God
  • Bathsheba
  • Abishag
  • Notes
  • Index of Titles and First Lines
Review by Booklist Review

Gunn, who died 14 years ago, wrote more than 16 collections of poetry and two collections of prose and essays. He referred to himself as an Anglo American writer, having immigrated from England to the U.S. in 1954. He settled in San Francisco and lived there until his death. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley off and on for more than three decades. Preeminent Gunn scholar Clive Wilmer has created a compendious selected volume drawn from 11 of Gunn's books, and his crisp introduction fills in many biographical gaps in the life of one of the finest poets in the English language. Gunn's professional career as a poet and writer spanned 50 years, beginning when he was 25 and his first book, Fighting Terms (1954), and culminated with Boss Cupid (2000). Though he may be best remembered by the reading public for The Man with Night Sweats (1992), poems from the epicenter of the then-growing AIDS epidemic hit an exacting note still heard and felt today.--Raúl Niño Copyright 2018 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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