The Passages of Joy - Softcover

Gunn, Thom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571118674 ISBN 13: 9780571118670

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1982

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The Passages of Joy, published in 1982, saw Thom Gunn writing at the height of his powers. The poems combine personal directness with an apparently effortless technical assurance.

Biografía del autor:

Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms (1954), while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. That same year, he moved to California and stayed there for the rest of his life, teaching at Berkeley and living in San Francisco. He published nine books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Gunn also published a Collected Poems (1994) and two collections of essays, The Occasions of Poetry (1982) and Shelf Life (1993). He was awarded many major prizes and fellowships from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. Thom Gunn died in 2004.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0571118674
• ISBN 13: 9780571118670
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96