Man With Night Sweats (FSG Classics)
The Man with Night Sweats is a poetry collection that moves through illness, intimacy, and mortality. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
Work Information
A compact poetry collection shaped by illness and intimacy.
The Man with Night Sweats returns repeatedly to illness, intimacy, and mortality, building a collection from exact images and low-key tension. The result is controlled on the surface but lingering in its aftereffects.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Fsg Adult
- Published
- 2007-04-17
- Pages
- 108 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 0.64 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780374530686
- ISBN-10
- 0374530688
- Price
- 2801 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Self-Help/Relationships/Love & Loss
The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is also one of the few works of literature that have fully met both the aesthetic and the moral challenges that the AIDS epidemic poses. The nobility and sobriety of Thom Gunn's forms enhance and underscore the gravity and pathos of his subjects. The results have the cathartic and healing power of great art.
Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University and wrote his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms (1954), while he was still an undergraduate. He moved to Northern California in 1954 and taught at American universities until his death. His last collection was Boss Cupid (FSG, 2000). August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock . His collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, and Sleeping It Off in Rapid City won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. That same year he received a Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Francisco.
Reviews
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On of the greatest book of poems of the twentieth century!
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Thom Gunn’s poetry is a deep and moving story of the AIDS epidemic as only a poet might express
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I bought this book for a literature class and had to analyze the book cover to cover and honestly I would have read it even if I didn't need it for my grade. The poetry is extremly well written and hits me with waves of emotion because I can connect with the poetry in many ways. I highly recomend this collection of poems!
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Thankyou
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Powerful, emotional, humours, sensual, spiritual and delightful - deserves its modern American classic reputation - a great book by a poet whose work should not be missed or relegated to being read only by university students - this is poetry for everyone.