1. Thom Gunn Thom Gunn's life and career childhood, National Service, Oxford education, FightingTerms, studies with Yvor Winters, drug experiences, and life as a gay http://www.interviews-with-poets.com/thom-gunn/gunn-note.html

Thom Gunn's life and career - childhood, National Service, Oxford education, Fighting Terms, studies with Yvor Winters, drug experiences, and life as a gay, acclaim for The Man with Night Sweats, MacArthur Fellowship. Interviews with Poets BTL talks to Thom Gunn about his life and work A Note on Thom Gunn Evening Standard , and then, somewhat later, of the Daily Sketch . Gunn's mother had also been a journalist, but gave up her career with the births of Thom and his younger brother, Ander. Gunn was only eight years old when the family moved to London, settling in Hampstead. He remembers the time and the place with great affection, and speaks of his boyhood as a very happy one. Just two years after the move, however, his parents were divorced. And four years after that, when Gunn was still in his mid-teens, his mother committed suicide. Asked about these events, and their effect on him, Gunn's inclination has been to ask whether all adolescences aren't unhappy, and to leave it at that. Gunn's love of reading seems to have been inspired by his mother, whose books filled the house. By the time of her death, he was immersed in the writings of Marlowe, Keats, Milton and Tennyson - to mention only the poets - and was unquestioningly committed to the idea "of books as not just a commentary on life but as a part of its continuing activity."

2. Thom Gunn - The Academy Of American Poets Biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/poets/tgunn

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Thom Gunn Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. Before enrolling in Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1950, he spent two years in the national service and six months in Paris. In 1954, he relocated to San Francisco and held a one-year fellowship at Stanford University, where he studied with Yvor Winters . Gunn has published more than thirty books of poetry in the United States and Britain, including Boss Cupid Frontiers of Gossip Collected Poems The Man with Night Sweats (1992), for which he received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Passages of Joy Selected Poems 1950-1975 Jack Straw's Castle To the Air Moly, and My Sad Captains Touch (1968); and The Sense of Movement (1959). He has also written several collections of essays, including The Occasions of Poetry (1982; U.S. edition, 1999). Among his honors are a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He teaches at the University of California in Berkeley. This bio was last updated on Jul 12, 2001.

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5. Thom Gunn Thom Gunn, born in England in 1929, has lived in San Francisco since1954. His work combines a respect for traditional poetic forms http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/6356/gunn.htm

6. Thom Gunn Books Thom Gunn Books. Manufacturing For Competitive Advantage Becoming A World ClassManufacturer By Thomas G. Gunn, Thom Gunn. Shelf Life By Thom Gunn (author). http://www.american-webshop.com/Thom-Gunn

American WebShoppe God Bless America Singer Index Author Index Top Selling Accessories ... Photo Thom Gunn Books Collected Poems By Thom Gunn (paperback - April 1995) The Occasions Of Poetry: Essays In Criticism And Autobiography (poets On Poetry) By Thom Gunn, Clive Wilmer (editor) (paperback - March 1999) Thom Gunn: In Conversation With James Campbell By James Campbell, Thom Gunn (contributor) (paperback - December 2000) Boss Cupid [download: Adobe Reader] By Thom Gunn (digital - April 2002) The Man With Night Sweats By Thom Gunn (hardcover - April 1993) The Passages Of Joy By Thom Gunn (textbook Binding - September 1983) Jack Straw's Castle And Other Poems By Thom Gunn Selected Poems, 1950-1975 By Thom Gunn (hardcover - January 1979) Positives By Thom. Gunn, Ander Gunn (contributor) Moly, And My Sad Captains. By Thom Gunn Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, And An Interview (poets On Poetry) By Thom Gunn (paperback - January 1994) The Occasions Of Poetry By Thom Gunn Moly By Thom Gunn Sense Of Movement By Thom Gunn Poems, 1950-1966: A Selection. By Thom. Gunn Positives : Verses By Thom Gunn Jack Straw's Castle By Thom Gunn Manufacturing For Competitive Advantage: Becoming A World Class Manufacturer By Thomas G. Gunn, Thom Gunn

7. Thom Gunn Thom Gunn (1929) The Dump . Thom Gunn, The Academy of American Poets.A very brief bio and the text of The Man with Night Sweats. . http://library.marist.edu/diglib/english/englishliterature/20thc-englishpoets/gu

Thom Gunn (1929-) "The Dump" Biography and a poem at the Dia Center for the Arts site. Erotic Balance - Review of Boss Cupid Robert Potts discusses Gunn's work. Smokin' Gunn - 1999 Interview and Profile Includes the texts of 5 poems, including "Still Life," and "San Francisco Streets." Thom Gunn , The Academy of American Poets. A very brief bio and the text of "The Man with Night Sweats." Thom Gunn Extracts from a Conversation with James Campbell Between the Lines: Interviews with Poets. This site also provides a biography of Gunn.

8. Thom Gunn Thom Gunn. The Man With Night Sweats. Collected Poems. Positives. Three contemporarypoets Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, RS Thomas. Moly, and My Sad Captains. http://www.artistactoractress.com/author/g/gunn_thom.html

Thom Gunn The Man With Night Sweats Collected Poems Selected poems, 1950-1975 The passages of joy Positives Moly, and My Sad Captains. Jack Straw's Castle and Other Poems Sense of Movement Poems, 1950-1966: A Selection. Moly Authors: G ArtistActorActress.com

9. Threepenny: Gunn, Painting By Vuillard Poem by thom gunn about a Vuillard painting he saw at the National Gallery, from the Fall 1999 issue of The Threepenny Review http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/gunn_f99.html

Fall 1999 Painting by Vuillard Two dumpy women with buns were drinking coffee And I think it was whitewashed, in spite of all the shade. They were flat brown, they were as brown as coffee. Wearing brown muslin? I really could not tell. How I loved this painting, they had grown so old That everything had got less complicated, Brown clothes and shade in a sunken whitewashed kitchen. Or less enjoyable, not dark, not whitewashed. The people sitting on the marble steps Of the national gallery, people in the sunlight, A party of handsome children eating lunch And drinking chocolate milk, and a young woman Whose t-shirt bears the defiant word WHATEVER, And wrinkled folk with visored hats and cameras Are vivid, they are not browned, not in the least, But if they do not look like coffee they look As pungent and startling as good strong coffee tastes, Possibly mixed with chicory. And no cream. Thom Gunn is an Anglo-American poet who lives in San Francisco. The author of

10. Gunn, Thom The Man With Night Sweats 48th EditionJanuary 2003 ©New York University The theme of this book of poems is life in a time of deadly plague. The author depicts his world ravaged by illness. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/gunn400-des-.

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 49th Edition-April 2003 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Authors Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Gunn, Thom The Man with Night Sweats On-Line Text Genre Collection (Poems) (85 pp.) Poem (85 pp.) Keywords AIDS Death and Dying Disease and Health Epidemics ... Survival Summary The theme of this book of poems is life in a time of deadly plague. The author depicts his world ravaged by illness. Some of the poems are quiet love songs for others, for the world and its delights, a world turned upside-down by the ravages of AIDS. Many of the poems are elegies for friends who have died in the epidemic. Commentary Gunn's poems are lyrical, restrained, yet brutally honest. The work gains in power because of its lack of hysteria or exhibitionism. The use of meter and rhyme also contribute to the intensity, perhaps by providing the reader with sufficient distance to see more clearly the horror of a world in which "Of course the dead outnumber us / How their recruiting armies grow!" ("Death's Door"). Poems about the experience of dying from the patient's and/or survivor's standpoint include "Lament," "Terminal," "Still Life," "Sacred Heart," "Memory Unsettled," and the title poem. "Well Dennis O'Grady" is a lovely little poem about an aged man "delighted to be out / in the slight December sunshine. . . ."

11. Thom Gunn: Extracts From The Conversation With James Campbell Extracts from a radio interview. http://www.interviews-with-poets.com/thom-gunn/gunn-extracts.html

Gunn talks about friends he made at Cambridge, the impact of F.R. Leavis; about California, the influence of Yvor Winters; and about Boss Cupid, and its sequence of 'songs' for serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Interviews with Poets BTL talks to Thom Gunn about his life and poetry Thom Gunn: extracts from the conversation with James Campbell A sentimental education "One is always nearer by not keeping still." Nearer what? Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and other serial killers Home ... Site Map On other pages Thom Gunn in conversation with James Campbell A note on Thom Gunn To order online, please enable Javascript. 1. A sentimental education [Campbell] Recently I read an article you wrote in 1954 about being a student at Cambridge, an article of the kind almost anyone could have written. Yet you wrote the poems that went into your first book of poems, Fighting Terms , while you were still at Cambridge, and it really is remarkably accomplished, the poetry very mature. It's difficult tying the writer of that article and the writer of those poems together. [Gunn] I remember the article you're thinking about. It was called 'Letter from Cambridge', and it came out in the

12. Dana Gioia Online - Thom Gunn Reviewed a decade or two of extraordinary writing. But thom gunn, San Franciscos best living poet, has kept writing in top http://www.danagioia.net/essays/egunn.htm

Essays Index Reviews and Author's Notes W. H. Auden Anthony Burgess Charles Causley Anton Chekhov ... Richard Wilbur American Poetry "Can Poetry Matter? "Notes Toward a New Bohemia" "What is Italian-American Poetry?" Poetry in California "Fallen Western Star" "On Being a California Poet" Poetry and Business " Being Outted" "A Spy in the House of Commerce" Writing "Accentual Verse" "On Endings" "Connect the Prose and the Passion" "Sotto Voce: The Libretto as Literary Form" Fine Press Printing and Manuscripts "Designing Literature: Creative Collaboration" "The Hand of the Poet: The Magical Value of Manuscripts" "Drama at the Opera House" "Glass Appeal: Philip Glass's Film Scores" ... rs' Fat Men" Top Gunn Thom Gunn Collected Poems and The Man with Night Sweats reviewed by Dana Gioia in San Francisco Magazine , December 1999 Collected Poems When Gunn, who will read his poems at the Herbst Theater this month, first came to the Bay Area in 1954, he was only twenty-five but had already published a celebrated book of poems. Having won a writing fellowship at Stanford, the young gay poet with "a promiscuous love of experience" studied with the famously rigorous Yvor Winters. Gunn’s already incisive style sharpened under Winters’s formalist tutelage, but his tone and subject kept their rebellious edge. His second book, for instance, began with a poem in rhymed iambic pentameter stanzas about a motorcycle gang on the move.

13. CPR - Clarence Major And Thom Gunn By James Rother: A Review by James Rother of Clarence Major, Configurations New Selected Poems, 19581998, and thom gunn, Boss Cupid Poems. http://www.cprw.com/Rother/gunn.htm

As Reviewed By: James Rother A M inoring of M ajor and S ome T op G unn by Clarence Major. Copper Canyon Press, 1998. 324 pp. $17.00 (paper) Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2000. 113 pp. $22.00 E-mail this site to a friend Clarence Major, who in his first volume of poems Swallow the Lake (1970) showed he could be an artisan of the colorful as well as an artist of color, seems now, on the evidence of his new collection, Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998 One such example of retrenchment in Configurations Postmodern American Poetry New and Selected Poems She knew more about me than let us say. Most difficult, the American, she said. Said a requiem is quite heavy, very dull and These violet people in gentle expenditures! impossible to translate one: Mass, and the day of masses. Yet how was it to be ease for her, feeling nothing of my spirit, knowing less of her own. She knew only the visits to the tombs in me.

14. Thom Gunn - The Academy Of American Poets thom gunn The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selectedpoems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. thom gunn. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=110

15. Thom Gunn - The Academy Of American Poets thom gunn The Man with Night Sweats. The Academy of American Add toa Notebook The Man with Night Sweats thom gunn. I wake up cold http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1341

16. Gunn, Thom. Boss Cupid. How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine gunn, thom. Boss Cupid. Apr.2000. 128p. Farrar, $22 (0374-11557-5). DDC 821. For some 40 http://www.ala.org/booklist/v96/adult/ap2/25gunn.html

Booklist Adult v.96 Hot List: Fiction Nonfiction Adult Fiction General Fiction Christian Fiction Mystery Romance ... Science Fiction Adult Nonfiction General Works Psychology Religion Social Sciences ... ALA Home Page How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine Gunn, Thom. Boss Cupid. Apr. 2000. 128p. Farrar, $22 (0-374-11557-5). DDC: 821. Ray Olson (Booklist/April 15, 2000) Top of Page Adult Booklist Index Booklist Archive ... Subscribe to Booklist Magazine

17. Gunn, Thom Comments/Inquiries ©New York University 19932003. gunn, thom. On-LineAuthor Site. Sex, Male. National Origin, England/United States of America. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/gunn321-au-.ht

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 49th Edition-April 2003 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Authors Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Gunn, Thom On-Line Author Site Sex Male National Origin England/United States of America Era Late 20th Century Born Awards Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award Annotated Works The Man with Night Sweats

18. The Poetry Of Arthur Boyars This site is dedicated to the poetry of Arthur Boyars (b. 1925). His most prolific years were between the '40s and 60's, and he was part of 'The Movement', alongside such figures as thom gunn, Phillip Larkin and John Wain. His poetry is lyrical, exacting and sharp. http://www.arthurboyars.com

19. Poetry Center - GUNN, THOM - 12/13/90 Reader gunn, thom. Accession Number 936. Date 12/13/90. Length 34 minutes.Tape Quality good. Collection Poetry Center. Ethnicity white. Language English. http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/newcatalog/550.htm

Reader: GUNN, THOM Accession Number - 936 Date: Length: 34 minutes Tape Quality: good Collection: Poetry Center Ethnicity: white Language: English Use Policy: available Content: "Power Play," "Improvisation," "Skateboard," "Duncan," "Hedonism," "Eastern Europe, February 1990," "Touch," "From a Nation Tent," "Her Pet," "Memory Unsettled," "A Blank," and "Saturday Night." Comments or Questions Search Catalog

20. Boston Review: thom gunn's book reviewed by David Ferry. http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR18.3/ferry.html

The Man with Night Sweats Thom Gunn Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, $15.00 The Rage of Understanding David Ferry Thom Gunn began writing in England just after World War II and came to this country in the mid-50s. It was apparent from the beginning of his career that he was very talented and it was more and more apparent as his career went on that his talent was fostered by his ambition and his capacity for undefensive self-criticism. Throughout his career his work has been steadily developing along a trajectory towards the achievement in The Passages of Joy (1982) and, ten years later, this new book, The Man with Night Sweats. In these books, and most vividly in the latter, it becomes clear that he is a great poet. Among the other astonishing poems in this astonishing book there is this one, "Yellow Pitcher Plant": flowering stomach scroll of leaf covered with small honeyed warts by which the seely fly is lured to sloping pastures at the trumpet's lip till grazing downhill the fly finds the underbrush of hairs casually pushed through has closed behind a thicket of lances sharkteeth trap oh alas!

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