{"product_id":"thom-gunn-michael-nott-9780374279202","title":"Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could \"give the dead a voice, make them sing\" (Hilton Als, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRaised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city's queerness, the hippie mentality (and drug use) of the sixties, and the tragedy and catastrophic impact of the AIDS crisis in the eighties and beyond. As Jeremy Lybarger wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, the author of \u003ci\u003eMoly\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Man with Night Sweats\u003c\/i\u003e was \"an agile poet who renovated tradition to accommodate the rude litter of modernity.\" \u003ci\u003eThom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles, for the first time, the largely undocumented life of this revolutionary poet. Michael Nott, a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Thom Gunn\u003c\/i\u003e, draws on letters, diaries, notebooks, interviews, and Gunn's poetry to create a portrait as vital as the man himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNott writes with insight and intimacy about the great sweep of Gunn's life: his traditional childhood in England; his mother's suicide; the mind-opening education he received at Cambridge, reading Shakespeare and John Donne; his decades in San Francisco and with his life partner, Mike Kitay; and his visceral experience of sex, drugs, and loss. \u003ci\u003eThom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a long-awaited, landmark study of one of England and America's most innovative poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Nott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374279209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374279202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2024","brand":"Michael Nott","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44919843487999,"sku":"9780374279202","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df3802d7-fb41-49e1-98e2-007f5d41fe6a.jpg?v=1710359561","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thom-gunn-michael-nott-9780374279202","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}