Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there\'s nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry.
Gunn\'s dozens of brilliantly realized Poems about nature, friendship, literature, sexual love, and death are set against the ever-changing backdrop of San Francisco the druggy, politically charged sixties and the plague years of AIDS in the.
His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous time in which he lived.
Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there\'s nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry