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The Man With Night Sweats

The Man With Night Sweats

by ThomGunn (Author)

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Ranging from classical forms to looser more colloquial measures, this collection of poems addresses a daunting range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with a sequence of poems about the deaths of the poet's friends from AIDS.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 04 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0571162576
ISBN 13: 9780571162574
Book Overview: The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn displays Gunn's unparalleled ability to move between classical forms and looser, more colloquial measures - while always remaining a deeply moving and affecting poet.
 Prizes: Winner of Forward Poetry Prize 1994 and Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 1992.

Media Reviews
The tension of Gunn's famous earlier poems, which adventurously drew on classical themes (Achilles and Patroclus), pop icons (Presley and Brando), and existential extremes, has, in his first new collection in ten years, become muted and commemorative . . . Gunn moves with a colloquial ease and a kind of epigrammatic grace through a variety of quatrains, coupleted monologues, Skeltonic variations, and occasional free verse. --John Updike, The New Yorker
The great and undeniable potency of The Man with Night Sweats comes from the poet's huge restraint, as much as from his tragic subject matter . . . The Man with Night Sweats shows a poet at the top of his form, gathering his world into art without ever choking off passion. The formidable craft behind these poems--the metrical, syllabic, and rhyming intricacy--is translucent, but there to buoy the emotion like an invisible net. --Matthew Gilbert, The Boston Globe
Perhaps his most wary, moving, personal book to date. It is a forceful reminder that Gunn . . . is one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century . . . He writes of and from the modern climate, as if wholly at home here; these new poems have a claim to be some of the most authentic occasional poems of our time. --Hugh Haughton, The Times Literary Supplement
What Gunn is continually attempting to grasp or understand in this book is the condition of those around him, strangers and lovers alike, and we treasure his tone of brotherly forbearance as he makes his way . . . Gunn is a definatly unsuitable poet--a formalist who often writes in free verse, an Englishman living in America, an autobiographical poet whose subjectselude the self . . . The book, divided into four sections, begins with poems boldly erotic and ends at 'death's door' . . . Yet amid all this astringent life experience, astonishingly, a profound hope emerges. --Henri Cole, The Nation
Author Bio
Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms (1954), while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. That same year, he moved to California and stayed there for the rest of his life, teaching at Berkeley and living in San Francisco. He published nine books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Gunn also published a Collected Poems (1994) and two collections of essays, The Occasions of Poetry (1982) and Shelf Life (1993). He was awarded many major prizes and fellowships from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. Thom Gunn died in 2004.