num_pages: 112
description: The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is also one of the few works of literature that have fully met both the aesthetic and the moral challenges that the AIDS epidemic poses. The nobility and sobriety of Thom Gunn's forms enhance and underscore the gravity and pathos of his subjects. The results have the cathartic and healing power of great art.
language: English
title: The Man with Night Sweats: Poems
titlecomplete: The Man with Night Sweats: Poems
genres: Queer Lit, Gay, The United States Of America, Read For School, American, Queer, Death, Nonfiction, Poetry, LGBT
ratings_count: 627
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Forward Prize
category: Best Collection, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Poetry
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux