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Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn's life and career childhood, National Service, Oxford education, FightingTerms, studies with Yvor Winters, drug experiences, and life as a gay
http://www.interviews-with-poets.com/thom-gunn/gunn-note.html

Extractions: A Note on Thom Gunn Evening Standard , and then, somewhat later, of the Daily Sketch . Gunn's mother had also been a journalist, but gave up her career with the births of Thom and his younger brother, Ander. Gunn was only eight years old when the family moved to London, settling in Hampstead. He remembers the time and the place with great affection, and speaks of his boyhood as a very happy one. Just two years after the move, however, his parents were divorced. And four years after that, when Gunn was still in his mid-teens, his mother committed suicide. Asked about these events, and their effect on him, Gunn's inclination has been to ask whether all adolescences aren't unhappy, and to leave it at that. Gunn's love of reading seems to have been inspired by his mother, whose books filled the house. By the time of her death, he was immersed in the writings of Marlowe, Keats, Milton and Tennyson - to mention only the poets - and was unquestioningly committed to the idea "of books as not just a commentary on life but as a part of its continuing activity."
Thom Gunn - The Academy Of American Poets
Biography, photograph, and selected poems.
http://www.poets.org/poets/tgunn

Extractions: poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Thom Gunn Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. Before enrolling in Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1950, he spent two years in the national service and six months in Paris. In 1954, he relocated to San Francisco and held a one-year fellowship at Stanford University, where he studied with Yvor Winters . Gunn has published more than thirty books of poetry in the United States and Britain, including Boss Cupid Frontiers of Gossip Collected Poems The Man with Night Sweats (1992), for which he received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Passages of Joy Selected Poems 1950-1975 Jack Straw's Castle To the Air Moly, and My Sad Captains Touch (1968); and The Sense of Movement (1959). He has also written several collections of essays, including The Occasions of Poetry (1982; U.S. edition, 1999). Among his honors are a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He teaches at the University of California in Berkeley. This bio was last updated on Jul 12, 2001.
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YRMusic.com :: Bio : Thom Gunn
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Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn, born in England in 1929, has lived in San Francisco since1954. His work combines a respect for traditional poetic forms
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Thom Gunn Books
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Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn (1929) The Dump . Thom Gunn, The Academy of American Poets.A very brief bio and the text of The Man with Night Sweats. .
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Extractions: Thom Gunn (1929-) "The Dump" Biography and a poem at the Dia Center for the Arts site. Erotic Balance - Review of Boss Cupid Robert Potts discusses Gunn's work. Smokin' Gunn - 1999 Interview and Profile Includes the texts of 5 poems, including "Still Life," and "San Francisco Streets." Thom Gunn , The Academy of American Poets. A very brief bio and the text of "The Man with Night Sweats." Thom Gunn Extracts from a Conversation with James Campbell Between the Lines: Interviews with Poets. This site also provides a biography of Gunn.
Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn. The Man With Night Sweats. Collected Poems. Positives. Three contemporarypoets Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, RS Thomas. Moly, and My Sad Captains.
http://www.artistactoractress.com/author/g/gunn_thom.html
Threepenny: Gunn, Painting By Vuillard
Poem by thom gunn about a Vuillard painting he saw at the National Gallery, from the Fall 1999 issue of The Threepenny Review
http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/gunn_f99.html
Gunn, Thom The Man With Night Sweats
48th EditionJanuary 2003 ©New York University The theme of this book of poems is life in a time of deadly plague. The author depicts his world ravaged by illness.
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/gunn400-des-.

Extractions: Genre Collection (Poems) (85 pp.) Poem (85 pp.) Keywords AIDS Death and Dying Disease and Health Epidemics ... Survival Summary The theme of this book of poems is life in a time of deadly plague. The author depicts his world ravaged by illness. Some of the poems are quiet love songs for others, for the world and its delights, a world turned upside-down by the ravages of AIDS. Many of the poems are elegies for friends who have died in the epidemic. Commentary Gunn's poems are lyrical, restrained, yet brutally honest. The work gains in power because of its lack of hysteria or exhibitionism. The use of meter and rhyme also contribute to the intensity, perhaps by providing the reader with sufficient distance to see more clearly the horror of a world in which "Of course the dead outnumber us / How their recruiting armies grow!" ("Death's Door"). Poems about the experience of dying from the patient's and/or survivor's standpoint include "Lament," "Terminal," "Still Life," "Sacred Heart," "Memory Unsettled," and the title poem. "Well Dennis O'Grady" is a lovely little poem about an aged man "delighted to be out / in the slight December sunshine. . . ."
Thom Gunn: Extracts From The Conversation With James Campbell
Extracts from a radio interview.
http://www.interviews-with-poets.com/thom-gunn/gunn-extracts.html

Extractions: 1. A sentimental education [Campbell] Recently I read an article you wrote in 1954 about being a student at Cambridge, an article of the kind almost anyone could have written. Yet you wrote the poems that went into your first book of poems, Fighting Terms , while you were still at Cambridge, and it really is remarkably accomplished, the poetry very mature. It's difficult tying the writer of that article and the writer of those poems together. [Gunn] I remember the article you're thinking about. It was called 'Letter from Cambridge', and it came out in the
Dana Gioia Online - Thom Gunn Reviewed
a decade or two of extraordinary writing. But thom gunn, San Franciscos best living poet, has kept writing in top
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Extractions: in San Francisco Magazine , December 1999 Collected Poems When Gunn, who will read his poems at the Herbst Theater this month, first came to the Bay Area in 1954, he was only twenty-five but had already published a celebrated book of poems. Having won a writing fellowship at Stanford, the young gay poet with "a promiscuous love of experience" studied with the famously rigorous Yvor Winters. Gunn’s already incisive style sharpened under Winters’s formalist tutelage, but his tone and subject kept their rebellious edge. His second book, for instance, began with a poem in rhymed iambic pentameter stanzas about a motorcycle gang on the move.
CPR - Clarence Major And Thom Gunn By James Rother:
A Review by James Rother of Clarence Major, Configurations New Selected Poems, 19581998, and thom gunn, Boss Cupid Poems.
http://www.cprw.com/Rother/gunn.htm
Thom Gunn - The Academy Of American Poets
thom gunn The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selectedpoems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. thom gunn.
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=110
Thom Gunn - The Academy Of American Poets
thom gunn The Man with Night Sweats. The Academy of American Add toa Notebook The Man with Night Sweats thom gunn. I wake up cold
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Gunn, Thom. Boss Cupid.
How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine gunn, thom. Boss Cupid. Apr.2000. 128p. Farrar, $22 (0374-11557-5). DDC 821. For some 40
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Gunn, Thom
Comments/Inquiries ©New York University 19932003. gunn, thom. On-LineAuthor Site. Sex, Male. National Origin, England/United States of America.
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The Poetry Of Arthur Boyars
This site is dedicated to the poetry of Arthur Boyars (b. 1925). His most prolific years were between the '40s and 60's, and he was part of 'The Movement', alongside such figures as thom gunn, Phillip Larkin and John Wain. His poetry is lyrical, exacting and sharp.
http://www.arthurboyars.com
Poetry Center - GUNN, THOM - 12/13/90
Reader gunn, thom. Accession Number 936. Date 12/13/90. Length 34 minutes.Tape Quality good. Collection Poetry Center. Ethnicity white. Language English.
http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/newcatalog/550.htm
Boston Review:
thom gunn's book reviewed by David Ferry.
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR18.3/ferry.html

Extractions: David Ferry Thom Gunn began writing in England just after World War II and came to this country in the mid-50s. It was apparent from the beginning of his career that he was very talented and it was more and more apparent as his career went on that his talent was fostered by his ambition and his capacity for undefensive self-criticism. Throughout his career his work has been steadily developing along a trajectory towards the achievement in The Passages of Joy (1982) and, ten years later, this new book, The Man with Night Sweats. In these books, and most vividly in the latter, it becomes clear that he is a great poet.

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