The Sense of Movement

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This second collection of Gunn's poetry was first published in 1957. Zusammenfassung This second collection of Gunn's poetry was first published in 1957.

Product details

• Authors: Thom Gunn, Gunn Thom
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2001
• EAN: 9780571210084
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21008-4
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 31 mm x 199 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Poetry; POETRY
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets