{"product_id":"selected-poems-thom-gunn-paperback","title":"Selected Poems -- Thom Gunn, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003eThom 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. Gunn'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. This new Selected Poems, edited and with an introduction by the poet August Kleinzahler, supplants the 1979 \u003ci\u003eSelected\u003c\/i\u003e, presenting more of the later work and providing a fuller retrospective account of the breadth and magnitude of Gunn's extraordinary achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Thom Gunn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3\/31\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.28\" H x 5.46\" L x 0.38\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780374258597\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51740847800619,"sku":"9780374258597","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780374258597.jpg?v=1774820864","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/selected-poems-thom-gunn-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}