{"product_id":"gunn-thom-new-selectpb","title":"Gunn, Thom: New Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 3, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA new selection of poems by the celebrated gay poet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThom Gunn has been described as \"one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century\" ( \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e). Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous time in which he lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGunn's dozens of brilliantly realized 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 Thom Gunn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eNew Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent the full arc of Gunn's inimitable career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817137549335,"sku":"9780374538699","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81lZIaLBBOL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793312634","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/gunn-thom-new-selectpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}