At the barriers
Subtitle: on the poetry of Thom Gunn
By: edited by Joshua Weiner.
Contributors: Weiner, Joshua.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780226890432; 9780226890449
Subjects: Gunn, Thom -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: This landmark volume traces how Gunn, in both his life and his writings, pushed at boundaries, be they geographic, sexual, or poetic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: In England / Eavan Boland; title: All that you praise I take: a glimpse of the young Thom Gunn / Neil Powell; title: Young Gunn: coming out fighting / Alfred Corn; title: Existentialism and homosexuality in Gunn's early poetry / Clive Wilmer; title: Gunn, Shakespeare, and the Elizabethans across the water / August Kleinzahler; title: Thom Gunn: the plain style and the city / Keith Tuma; title: Thom Gunn and Anglo-American modernism / Joshua Weiner; title: From Ladd's Hill to Land's End (and back again): narrative, rhythm, and the transatlantic occasions of "Misanthropos" / Thom Gunn; title: Versions of "Meat" / Joshua Weiner; title: Gunn's "Meat": notations on craft in America / John Peck; title: Summation and chthonic power / Brian Teare; title: Our dionysian experiment: three theses on the poetry of Thom Gunn; title: Of the world / Tom Sleigh; title: Thom Gunn's new Jerusalem / David Gewanter; title: Domains of ecstasy / Paul Muldoon; title: Considering "Considering the snail" / Wendy Lesser; title: Thom Gunn's "Duncan" / Robert Pinsky; title: Coda: Thom Gunn, inside and outside.