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Collected Poems Book

Thom Gunn has always known how to refresh his sight. His Collected Poems offers startling and capacious poems that haven't appeared before in book form--poems that make a case that there is no such thing as a typical Thom Gunn poem, such as "At the Barriers" and "Confessions of a Life Artist": People will forget Shakespeare. He will lie with George Formby and me, here where the swine root. Later, the solar system will flare up and fall into space, irretrievably lost. For the loss, as for the life, there will be no excuse, there is no justification. Gunn's work stands distinct from many of his contemporaries in that he has used form in the service of lyrical, not pathological, intensity (see "Expression"). Always the tragedian, never the tragic figure, he knows that read more...
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