"Thom Gunn is a poet, his brother is a photographer.  In "Positives" they have joined forces to produce a book in which poetry and visual imagery are used to counterpoint and reinforce each other; and to produce between them an effect more powerful and more moving than either would on its own.  Every opening of the book has, on the right hand page, a photograph by Ander Gunn; and, faceing it, a poem by Thom Gunn.  Each is reveleant to the other; and the whole organic series of poems and pictures is a bold, exciting and successful creative experiment."...from the cover flap

Positives

Literature & Fiction

Thom Gunn

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

A new collection of poems (Moly) is combined with an earlier collection (1961) of My Sad Captains.

Moly and My Sad Captains

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

The full range of Gunn's poetic powers is manifest in "The Wound," "On the Move," "The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of His Death," and other poems selected by Gunn from all of his full-length books

Selected Poems by Thom Gunn & Ted Hughes

TED HUGHES

Poetry

Faber&Faber

Fighting Terms

Faber and Faber

55p cloth, dustjacket, very good nice copy in a complete if dusty dustjacket

Moly

Faber and Faber Ltd.

First published in 1962 this selection, made by the poets themselves, draws on the volumes they had published up to that date and forms a valuable introduction to their work.

Selected Poems

Faber Faber Ltd

A collection of verse which brings together the work to date of this poet, written over the last 40 years, from his first collection FIGHTING TERMS to his most recent MAN WITH NIGHT SWEATS.

Collected Poems of Thom Gunn

Devoted mainly to aspects of American literature, from Walt Whitman to the contemporary voices of Allen Ginsberg and August Kleinsahler, this book ranges from figures such as H.D., Marianne Moore and Mina Loy - brought together under the title "Three Hard Women" - the Modernist T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Basil Bunting, and the West Coast writers Robert Duncan and Jack Sharpless. The book also includes personal memoirs of Christopher Isherwood and Yvor Winters, and a discussion between Gunn and Jim Powell, himself the subject of an earlier review.

Shelf Life

Faber and Faber, 1994

In some respects a sequel to The Man With Night Sweats, Boss Cupid is a memorialising of friends who have died, an anatomy of survival, and a self-portrait of the poet in age. The poems are written under the sign of Cupid, 'devious master of our bodies', but their intimacies are always heard against the sociable human hum of an entire community which Gunn depicts in poems of fluent grace, as formal as they are relaxed.

Boss Cupid

1974; First edition, first printing. Flyleaf is inscribed. Number 6 in the First Godine Poetry Chapbook Series. Edited by Jan Schreiber. Issued without dust jacket.

To the Air (First Godine Poetry Chapbook Series)

David R. Godine

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