New selected poems / Thom Gunn ; edited by Clive Wilmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunn, Thom, author.

Contributor:

Wilmer, Clive, 1945- editor.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--20th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xlv, 284 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Summary:

Gunn's "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 [he]"--Publisher marketing.

Contents:

from Fighting Terms (1954)

The Wound p. 5

Carnal Knowledge p. 6

Lerici p. 8

Tamer and Hawk p. 9

Incident on a Journey p. 10

from The Sense Of Movement (1957)

On the Move p. 15

At the Back of the North Wind p. 17

Autumn Chapter in a Novel p. 18

The Silver Age p. 20

Elvis Presley p. 21

The Allegory of the Wolf Boy p. 22

Jesus and his Mother p. 23

To Yvor Winters, 1955 p. 25

Vox Humana p. 27

from My Sad Captains (1961)

In Santa Maria del Popolo p. 31

Innocence p. 33

Modes of Pleasure ('New face, strange face, for my unrest') p. 35

The Byrnies p. 36

Claus von Stauffenberg p. 38

Flying Above California p. 40

Considering the Snail p. 41

The Feel of Hands p. 42

My Sad Captains p. 43

Uncollected (1960s)

From an Asian Tent p. 47

from Positives (1965)

The Old Woman p. 51

from Touch (1967)

The Goddess p. 55

Touch p. 56

Misanthropos p. 58

The Last Man p. 58

Memoirs of the World p. 63

Elegy on the Dust p. 71

The First Man p. 73

Pierce Street p. 80

from Moly (1971)

Rites of Passage p. 85

Moly p. 86

For Signs p. 88

Three p. 90

From the Wave p. 92

Street Song p. 94

Grasses p. 96

The Discovery of the Pacific p. 97

Sunlight p. 98

from Jack Straw's Castle (1976)

Iron Landscapes (and the Statue of Liberty) p. 104

Last Days at Teddington p. 106

Jack Straw's Castle p. 107

An Amorous Debate p. 118

Autobiography p. 121

Yoko p. 123

from The Passages Of Joy (1982)

Expression p. 129

Sweet Things p. 130

San Francisco Streets p. 134

Transients and Residents p. 137

Falstaff p. 137

Crystal p. 138

Crosswords p. 140

Interruption p. 142

Talbot Road p. 144

Night Taxi p. 151

from The Man With Night Sweats (1992)

The Hug p. 157

The Differences p. 158

Skateboard p. 160

To Isherwood Dying p. 161

The Stealer p. 161

Nasturtium p. 164

The Man with Night Sweats p. 165

Lament p. 167

Terminal p. 172

Her Pet p. 173

The J Car p. 175

The Missing p. 177

from Boss Cupid (2000)

Duncan p. 181

My Mother's Pride p. 183

The Gas-poker p. 184

To Donald Davie in Heaven p. 186

The Artist as an Old Man p. 188

A Wood near Athens p. 190

Dancing David p. 193

God p. 193

Bathsheba p. 195

Abishag p. 197.

Notes:

"Originally published in 2017 by Faber & Faber Limited, Great Britain, as Selected Poems."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780374220563

0374220565

OCLC:

1030484459