BOSS CUPID P - Brossura

Gunn, Thom

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374527717 ISBN 13: 9780374527716

Casa editrice: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

Riassunto

A provocative new collection of poems by the author of The Man with Night Sweats tackles the thorny issue of desire through a varied cast of characters that includes Kind David, Arthur Rimbaud, and Jeffrey Dahmer, among others. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Thom Gunn, born in 1929, has received many awards, most recently a Lila Acheson Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. His works include The Man with Night Sweats and Collected Poems.

Product Description:

A great poet's freshest, most provocative book. He dreams at the center of a closed system, Like the prison system, or a system of love, Where folktale, recipe, and household customRefer back to the maze that they are of.--from A System: PCP, or Angel Dust Taste and appetite are contraposed in Boss Cupid, the twelfth book of poems by the quintessential San Francisco poet, who is also the quintessential craftsman and quintessentially a love poet, though not of quintessential love.Variations on how we are ruled by our desires, these poems make a startling and eloquent gloss on wanton want, moving freely from the story of King David and Bathsheba to Arthur Rimbaud's diet to the tastes of Jeffrey Dahmer. As warm and intelligent as it is ribald and cunning, this collection of Thom Gunn's is his richest yet.

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• Editore: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0374527717
• ISBN 13: 9780374527716
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128