Selected Poems of Thom Gunn

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 A beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunn's classic poetry, illuminated by insightful notes. Zusammenfassung A beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunn's classic poetry, illuminated by insightful notes.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Thom Gunn, Gunn Thom
• Edition: Faber & Faber
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780571365081
• ISBN: 978-0-571-36508-1
• Pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 28 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; Poetry, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / LGBT, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), POETRY / LGBTQ+