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The Man with Night Sweats: Poems
The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is also one of the few works of literature that have fully met both the aesthetic and the moral challenges that the AIDS epidemic poses. The nobility and sobriety of Thom Gunn's forms enhance and underscore the gravity and pathos of his subjects. The results have the cathartic and healing power of great art.
Book Details
- Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
- Publish Date: Apr 17th, 2007
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.26in - 5.72in - 0.33in - 0.32lb
- EAN: 9780374530686
- Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• American - General
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About the Author
Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was born in England but lived in San Francisco for most of his life. He was the author of two volumes of essays in addition to his volumes of poetry.
Thom's poetry books include Boss Cupid and The Man with Night Sweats.
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What people are saying
Meghan O'Rourke is an author and journalist.
Thom Gunn, "The Man with Night Sweats" (about HIV/AIDS)--that last image so touching: https://t.co/DQ5JBac3OL https://t.co/XPoZ6OmH3s
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a magazine of interpretation and opinion for a rapidly changing world.
There’s a meditative grandeur to some of Thom Gunn’s best poems, a gradual disclosure of the self that’s as much intellectual as moral, writes @jeremylybarger. https://t.co/APzsTuadbG
D.A. Powell is a poet.
Update: this impromptu discussion of pioneering LGBTQ writers of SF included readings of poems by @VampyreVamp, Judy Grahn and the late Thom Gunn. I hope they would all smile to think of their work being read aloud in the atrium of San Francisco's Embarcadero Hyatt.
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What people are saying
Meghan O'Rourke is an author and journalist.
Thom Gunn, "The Man with Night Sweats" (about HIV/AIDS)--that last image so touching: https://t.co/DQ5JBac3OL https://t.co/XPoZ6OmH3s
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a magazine of interpretation and opinion for a rapidly changing world.
There’s a meditative grandeur to some of Thom Gunn’s best poems, a gradual disclosure of the self that’s as much intellectual as moral, writes @jeremylybarger. https://t.co/APzsTuadbG