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About the author
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.Michael Nott is the author of Photopoetry, 1845 - 2015: A Critical History (2018). He was a Fullbright fellow at the University of California, BErkley, and a postdoctoral fellow at University College Cork.August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City in 1949. He is the author of many books of poems and a prose memoir, Cutty, One Rock. The Strange Hours Travelers Keep won the International Griffin Poetry Prize (2004), Sleeping it Off in Rapid City the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in San Francisco.
Summary
This selection of correspondence presents, for the first time, the private life and reflections of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry.
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This selection of correspondence presents, for the first time, the private life and reflections of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry.
