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Breakfast with Thom Gunn

Randall Mann

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Description:"Aubade"Those who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gullsalike lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilotOCOs boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small sharkOCoaand our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger.aBut ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest formof see how the bay is a grayadeepening into gray, the color of heartbreak.aaaaaaaaaaaRandall MannOCOs "Breakfast with Thom Gunn "is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929OCo2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and California, but the backdrop is OC pitiless, OCO the trees OC thin and bloodless, OCO the words OC like the icy waterOCO of the San Francisco Bay. Mann, fiercely intelligent, open yet elusive, draws on the OC graceful erosionOCO of both landscape and the body, on the beauty that lies in unbeauty. With audacity, anxiety, and unbridled desire, this gifted lyric poet grapples with dilemmas of the gay self embroiled inOCoand aroused byOCoa glittering, unforgiving subculture. "Breakfast with Thom Gunn "is at once formal and free, forging a sublime integrity in the fire of wit, intensity, and betrayal.aPraise for "Complaint in the Garden"aaaOC We have before us a skillful, witty, passionate young poet. . . . Randall Mann is both attuned to and at odds with the natural world; he articulates the passions and predicaments of a self inside a massive, arousing, but sometimes brutal culture. And he accomplishes these things with buoyant lyric sensibilities and rejuvenating skills.OCOOCo"Kenyon Review"""a""aaa"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Breakfast with Thom Gunn. To get started finding Breakfast with Thom Gunn, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 65

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Not Avail

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226503453

Description: "Aubade"Those who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gullsalike lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilotOCOs boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small sharkOCoaand our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger.aBut ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest formof see how the bay is a grayadeepening into gray, the color of heartbreak.aaaaaaaaaaaRandall MannOCOs "Breakfast with Thom Gunn "is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929OCo2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and California, but the backdrop is OC pitiless, OCO the trees OC thin and bloodless, OCO the words OC like the icy waterOCO of the San Francisco Bay. Mann, fiercely intelligent, open yet elusive, draws on the OC graceful erosionOCO of both landscape and the body, on the beauty that lies in unbeauty. With audacity, anxiety, and unbridled desire, this gifted lyric poet grapples with dilemmas of the gay self embroiled inOCoand aroused byOCoa glittering, unforgiving subculture. "Breakfast with Thom Gunn "is at once formal and free, forging a sublime integrity in the fire of wit, intensity, and betrayal.aPraise for "Complaint in the Garden"aaaOC We have before us a skillful, witty, passionate young poet. . . . Randall Mann is both attuned to and at odds with the natural world; he articulates the passions and predicaments of a self inside a massive, arousing, but sometimes brutal culture. And he accomplishes these things with buoyant lyric sensibilities and rejuvenating skills.OCOOCo"Kenyon Review"""a""aaa"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Breakfast with Thom Gunn. To get started finding Breakfast with Thom Gunn, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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