Selected Poems of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn (English) Paperback Book

Description: Selected Poems of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn A beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunns classic poetry, illuminated by insightful notes. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Gunns 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 artists 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 KleinzahlerThom 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 SampsonGunns 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 OBrien Author Biography Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms (1954), while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. That same year, he moved to California and stayed there for the rest of his life, teaching at Berkeley and living in San Francisco. He published nine books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Gunn also published a Collected Poems (1994) and two collections of essays, The Occasions of Poetry (1982) and Shelf Life (1993). He was awarded many major prizes and fellowships from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. Thom Gunn died in 2004.Clive Wilmer is the author of eight books of poetry, including New and Collected Poems (2012) and Urban Pastorals (2014). He has written extensively on Thom Gunns poetry and edited his first collection of essays, The Occasions of Poetry (1982). He is Emeritus Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Promotional A beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunns classic poetry, illuminated by insightful notes. Long Description A beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunns classic poetry, illuminated by insightful notes. 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 Gunns 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 artists 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 Gunns 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 OBrien Promotional "Headline" A beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunns classic poetry, illuminated by insightful notes. Details ISBN0571365086 Author Thom Gunn Pages 336 Publisher Faber & Faber Year 2021 ISBN-10 0571365086 ISBN-13 9780571365081 Publication Date 2021-03-18 Format Paperback Language English DEWEY 821.914 UK Release Date 2021-03-18 Imprint Faber & Faber Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-03-18 Edition Description Main Audience General NZ Release Date 2021-05-17 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131434331;

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