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Breakfast with Thom Gunn Author: Randall Mann

ISBN: 9780226503448 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 76 Published: 16 June 2010 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 15.6 x 1.27 Description: "Aubade"Those who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot's boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark-- and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. Randall Mann's "Breakfast with Thom Gunn "is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929-2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and California, but the backdrop is "pitiless," the trees "thin and bloodless," the words "like the icy water" of the San Francisco Bay. Mann, fiercely intelligent, open yet elusive, draws on the "graceful erosion" of both landscape and the body, on the beauty that lies in unbeauty. With audacity, anxiety, and unbridled desire, this gifted lyric poet grapples with dile...

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