Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Classics_Gift_Guide This plain and simple guide

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Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Classics_Gift_Guide This plain and simple guideA no holds barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could give the dead a voice, make them sing (Hilton Als, The New Yorker). Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the citys queerness, the hippie mentality