At the barriers : on the poetry of Thom Gunn / edited by Joshua Weiner.

Other author Weiner, Joshua.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Descriptionxii, 329 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction -- In England / Eavan Boland -- All that you praise I take: a glimpse of the young Thom Gunn / Neil Powell -- Young Gunn: coming out fighting / Alfred Corn -- Existentialism and homosexuality in Gunn's early poetry / Clive Wilmer -- Gunn, Shakespeare, and the Elizabethans across the water / August Kleinzahler -- Thom Gunn: the plain style and the city / Keith Tuma -- Thom Gunn and Anglo-American modernism / Joshua Weiner -- From Ladd's Hill to Land's End (and back again): narrative, rhythm, and the transatlantic occasions of "Misanthropos" / Thom Gunn -- Versions of "Meat" / Joshua Weiner -- Gunn's "Meat": notations on craft in America / John Peck -- Summation and chthonic power / Brian Teare -- Our dionysian experiment: three theses on the poetry of Thom Gunn -- Of the world / Tom Sleigh -- Thom Gunn's new Jerusalem / David Gewanter -- Domains of ecstasy / Paul Muldoon -- Considering "Considering the snail" / Wendy Lesser -- Thom Gunn's "Duncan" / Robert Pinsky -- Coda: Thom Gunn, inside and outside.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index.
LCCN 2009004284
ISBN9780226890432 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226890449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0226890430 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226890449 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR6013.U65 Z55 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold