| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
vii, 111 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
A collection of poems by Thom Gunn that describe how people are ruled by their desires. |
| Contents |
Duncan -- The antagonism -- A home -- My mother's pride -- The gas-poker -- A young novelist -- In the post office -- Postscript: The panel -- The butcher's son -- An operation -- The problem -- Arethusa saved -- Arethusa raped -- Arachne -- Enough -- Cat Island -- Nights with the Speed Brothers -- A system -- Sequel -- Shit -- The dump -- Jokes, et cetera -- Saturday night -- American boy -- Painting by Vuillard -- Famous friends -- A GI in 1943 -- Front bar of the Lone Star -- To Donald Davie in heaven -- A Los Angeles childhood -- The artist as an old man -- "The little cousin dashed in" -- Classics -- "7 a.m. in the bar" -- Hi -- Coffee on Cole -- Letters from Manhattan -- "Save the word" -- Convergence -- Blues for the New Year, 1997 -- Aubade -- The search -- Office Hours -- "Stories of bar-fights" -- "First saw him." |
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(Cont. 2) Troubadour -- Hitch-hiker -- Iron man -- The visible man -- A borrowed man -- Final song -- Coffee shop -- Rapallo -- In trust -- To Cupid -- Front door man -- A wood near Athens -- First song -- Dancing David -- God -- Bathsheba -- Abishag. |
| Subject |
Love poetry.
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
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Love poetry. (OCoLC)fst01002814
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| ISBN |
0374115575 (alk. paper) |
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9780374115579 (alk. paper) |
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