New selected poems /
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, circumsta...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 was. |
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| 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 0374220565 |