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Thom Gunn

    Thom Gunn è stato un poeta anglo-americano celebrato per i suoi primi versi in Inghilterra e per il suo lavoro successivo in America. Il suo stile si è evoluto da strutture più formali verso un approccio più libero in versi sciolti. Dopo essersi trasferito a San Francisco, Gunn ha esplorato temi legati alla vita gay, all'uso di droghe, al sesso e alla sua esistenza bohémien. La sua scrittura è apprezzata per la sua schiettezza e la sua acuta osservazione dell'esperienza umana.

    The Poets' Collection
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    My Sad Captains
    Selected Poems
    The Man With Night Sweats
    • The Poets' Collection

      Englischsprachige Lyrik im Originalton und in deutscher Übersetzung

      Die größte zweisprachige Lyrik-Anthologie im Originalton versammelt 94 englischsprachige Lyrikerinnen und Lyriker und bietet seltene Sprachaufnahmen, die in mehrjähriger Recherche zusammengetragen wurden. Die Anthologie nimmt die Hörer mit auf eine zeitliche und geographische Reise durch das letzte Jahrhundert der englischsprachigen Welt. Die Übersetzungen werden von erstklassigen Schauspielern gelesen und stammen von angesehenen Lyrikern und Übersetzern. Zu den vertretenen Dichtern gehören Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, Edith Sitwell, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald Macleish, Dorothy Parker, E. E. Cummings, Robert Ranke Graves, Louise Bogan, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Louis Zukofsky, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Elizabeth Bishop, John Cage, Karl Shapiro, Delmore Schwartz, Muriel Rukeyser, Dylan Thomas, James Laughlin, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Richard Wilbur, Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Michael Hamburger, Kenneth Koch, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Charles Tomlinson

      The Poets' Collection2018
    • The Man With Night Sweats

      • 104pagine
      • 4 ore di lettura

      With an illuminating new preface by Colm Tóibín, here is Thom Gunn's extraordinary memorial to love, life and death in the time of the AIDS crisisThe Man With Night Sweats, originally published in 1992, sees Thom Gunn writing at the height of his powers.

      The Man With Night Sweats1998
      4,1
    • Paperback signed by the author, in very good condition. Creasing along the spine and spinesides, front cover, and cover edges are slightly rubbed. Page block and page edges are tanned. Pages are otherwise clear and binding is sound. LW

      Selected Poems1965
      3,9