Boss Cupid (Faber Poetry)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0571202985 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Not a Poet!" according to Joseph J. Hanssen. I'm not a poet, I just enjoy and love reading poetry. Thiswas my first time reading Thom Gunn's poetry, and I was reallyimpressed by his new book of poetry, "Boss Cupid." This is also the first book of poetry I have read right through to the end in one setting, and then re-read mo. An aging poet becomes stronger and finer! A Customer I think this new book shows Thom Gunn at his greatest as a poet. Many people who became fans of Gunn's work (very understandably)because of his last collection of poems, The Man with Night Sweats, probably won't be quite sure what to do with this material. But it's very characteri. The Cupid of Desire p.c. scearce In Boss Cupid Thom Gunn takes on the forms of desire. He encompases desire from every angle possible. From how an older poet reaching out towards a younger poet wants so much create a mythic scene, as in the opening poem "Duncan," or the desire found in seeing someone who looks li
The poems are written under the sign of Cupid, 'devious master of our bodies', but their intimacies are always heard against the sociable human hum of an entire community which Gunn depicts in poems of fluent grace, as formal as they are relaxed.. In some respects a sequel to "The Man With Night Sweats", "Boss Cupid" is a memorialising of friends who have died, an anatomy of survival, and a self-portrait of the poet in age
Thom Gunn died in 2004. After National Service and a short time living in Paris, he enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms, while he was still an undergraduate. Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. In 1954 he moved to S
(A brief set of poems in the person of gay serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac Jeffrey Dahmer are overwhelmed by their subject.) The loose sequence "Gossip"--about a third of the book--consists of quick, memorable, short-lined free-verse portraits: "Frank O'Hara's last lover," the survivor of a brutal "Los Angeles childhood," a Berkeley student "fueled/ on wit and risk/ and Ecstasy." Standalone short poems include a dignified and forceful ode about stained-glass windows and a capsule biography of a man "Raised, he said, not at home but in a Home." While all these ought to satisfy both neophytes and longtime Gunn fans, the latter may be most strongly affected by Gunn's pair of poems on his mother's suicide, a subject on which he has not before published verse: "I am made by her," one poem ends, "and undone." (