Collected Poems
by Thom Gunn
ISBN: 0374126216
ISBN-13: 9780374126216
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 1994
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.7 pounds
Publisher's Notes
In his (Collected Poems) Thom Gunn has assembled all the work he considers worthy from throughout his remarkable career. Gunn's first book, Fighting Terms (1954), was quickly identified in The Cambridge Review as "one of the few volumes of post-war verse that all serious readers of poetry need to possess and study", and in the four decades since, he has come to be recognized as one of the finest poets writing in English. Collected Poems establishes the breadth and formal catholicity of his work, from the classically inspired early poems to the stylistically exuberant poems of the 1960s to the elegiac rhymed verse of The Man with Night Sweats (1992), in which, as John Updike wrote in The New Yorker, "the tension of Gunn's famous earlier poems...has become muted and commemorative". Born in 1929 and raised in Britain, Gunn has lived in northern California since 1954, and he describes himself as an Anglo-American poet. His poetry is likewise a mixture of apparently discordant elements, and he has made a specialty of playing style against subject, dealing with the out-of-control through tightly controlled meters and with the systematized through open forms. Some of the contents of Collected Poems has been out of print for many years. This gathering together of the full range of Thom Gunn's work reveals the enormous extent of his creative achievement.
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Collected Poems
Gunn, Thom
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Collected poems
Gunn, Thom
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1994. xvi, 495p., second printing, dj. ( more information)
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COLLECTED POEMS
Gunn, Thomas
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994. 495pp. Black cloth spine under gray boards with DJ, VG, index, Collection of poetry by Thomas Gunn, . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information)
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Collected Poems
Gunn, Thom
Farrar Straus, 1994. Remainder mark to top edge; else as new in like DJ. 495 pp.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. ( more information)
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Talbot Road
Gunn, Thom
New York: Helikon Press. 1981. [16]p., one of of 186 handsewn and numbered copies signed by the poet, wraps. ( more information)
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At the barriers (Dore Alley Fair)
Gunn, Thom
San Francisco: Nadja. 1989. 20p., sewn, handset type, no.33 of 74 numbered copies (of 100) signed by Gunn, wraps of handmade paper with letterpress dust jacket on same handmade stock. The poet's homage to Robert Duncan. ( more information)
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GUNN, THOM
New York:: Farrar, Straus Giroux,, 1994. 0374126216. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dj. First Printing.. ( more information)
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Collected Poems
Gunn, Thom
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. Hardcover in dustjacket, 495pp. First Edition. First Printing. Poetry. Signed & dated in year of publication by the author on the title page, with "L.A." between the signature and date. In Fine condition in a fine dust jacket with light bump to the front cover.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ( more information)
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