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Collected Poems

by Thom Gunn · 1993

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This collection covers the span of Thom Gunn's remarkable poetic career over almost forty years. Gunn has made a speciality of playing style against subject as he deals with the out-of-control through tightly controlled meters and with the systematized through open forms.

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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 512 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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