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The Collected Poetry of Thom Gunn!
Our book today is 1994′s The Collected Poems of Thom Gunn, who was born in England and followed his lover to California at the height of the drug-soaked ‘counter-culture’ movement then cresting there. He dove into that movement with the same studied abandon he released on all the things that interested him, becoming at once [...]
Digressions welcome in the Penny Press!
For a bookworm, can there be any more reassuring note of continuity than the year’s first issue of the TLS? The 1 January issue is rich with wonders – it beguiled a portion of my afternoon while the temperatures plummeted and the snow fell. There’s James Murphy’s long and extremely thoughtful review of D. D. [...]
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