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Gunn's work illustrates the debates poetry in English has pursued in this century - form versus improvization, diction versus talk, the American way ...Show synopsisGunn's work illustrates the debates poetry in English has pursued in this century - form versus improvization, diction versus talk, the American way versus the English tradition, and even, at times, authenticity versus art.Hide synopsis
Trade paperback, Noonday Press 1995
English
495 pages
ISBN: 0374524335 ISBN-13: 9780374524333
In his [Collected Poems] Thom Gunn has assembled all the work he considers worthy from throughout his remarkable career. Gunn's first book, Fighting Terms (1954), was quickly identified in The Cambridge Review as "one of the few volumes of post-war verse that all serious readers of poetry need to possess and study", and in the four decades since, he has come to be recognized as one of the finest poets writing in English. Collected Poems establishes the breadth and formal catholicity of his work, from the classically ...Show moreIn his [Collected Poems] Thom Gunn has assembled all the work he considers worthy from throughout his remarkable career. Gunn's first book, Fighting Terms (1954), was quickly identified in The Cambridge Review as "one of the few volumes of post-war verse that all serious readers of poetry need to possess and study", and in the four decades since, he has come to be recognized as one of the finest poets writing in English. Collected Poems establishes the breadth and formal catholicity of his work, from the classically inspired early poems to the stylistically exuberant poems of the 1960s to the elegiac rhymed verse of The Man with Night Sweats (1992), in which, as John Updike wrote in The New Yorker, "the tension of Gunn's famous earlier poems...has become muted and commemorative". Born in 1929 and raised in Britain, Gunn has lived in northern California since 1954, and he describes himself as an Anglo-American poet. His poetry is likewise a mixture of apparently discordant elements, and he has made a specialty of playing style against subject, dealing with the out-of-control through tightly controlled meters and with the systematized through open forms. Some of the contents of Collected Poems has been out of print for many years. This gathering together of the full range of Thom Gunn's work reveals the enormous extent of his creative achievement.Hide
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Description:Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Third printing...Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Third printing 1999 stated. INSCRIPTION AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR (1999) on full title page. No markings to text. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 495 p. Audience: General/trade.
Publisher: NY: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1995, 1st thus
Description:Vg/wrps. Inscribed by author, reading crease in spine, faint...Vg/wrps. Inscribed by author, reading crease in spine, faint crease in front wraps, fo bookstore stamp in red ink on inside front wrap, lightly dinged corners.
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Publisher: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997. )
Description:Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (bookstore stamp...Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (bookstore stamp inside front cover, otherwise as new, appears unread. ) Uncommon signed. SIGNED-Powerful collection by this writer, born in England, but closely associated with San Francisco for most of his life (Edmund White described him as "the last of the commune dwellers [...] serious and intellectual by day and druggy and sexual by night". ) In 2003, he was the first poet to be awarded the prestigious David Cohen British Literature Award for lifetime achievement. SIGNED on the title page. Postcript, notes, index of titles. 495 pp.
