{"product_id":"9780374538699","title":"New Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new selection of poems by the celebrated gay poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThom Gunn has been described as “one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century” (\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e). 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGunn’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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eNew Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent the full arc of Gunn’s inimitable career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370059468861,"sku":"9780374538699","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374538699_p0.jpg?v=1771586686","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780374538699","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}