{"product_id":"thom-gunn-a-cool-queer-life-paperback","title":"Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Nott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could \"give the dead a voice, make them sing\" (Hilton Als, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRaised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city's queerness, the hippie mentality (and drug use) of the sixties, and the tragedy and catastrophic impact of the AIDS crisis in the eighties and beyond. As Jeremy Lybarger wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, the author of \u003ci\u003eMoly \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Man with Night Sweats\u003c\/i\u003e was \"an agile poet who renovated tradition to accommodate the rude litter of modernity.\" \u003ci\u003eThom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles, for the first time, the largely undocumented life of this revolutionary poet. Michael Nott, an editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Thom Gunn\u003c\/i\u003e, draws on letters, diaries, notebooks, interviews, and Gunn's poetry to create a portrait as vital as the man himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNott writes with insight and intimacy about the great sweep of Gunn's life: his traditional childhood in England; his mother's suicide; the mind-opening education he received at Cambridge, where he read Shakespeare and John Donne; his decades in San Francisco with his life partner, Mike Kitay; and his visceral experience of sex, drugs, and loss. \u003ci\u003eThom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a long-awaited landmark study of one of\u003cbr\u003eEngland's and America's most innovative poets.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Nott\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003ePhotopoetry, 1845-2015: A Critical History\u003c\/i\u003e and an editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Thom Gunn.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in London, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 736\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 8.66 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 17, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52469860335923,"sku":"9781250390370","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YsqovMYJHe9781250390370.webp?v=1759406047","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/thom-gunn-a-cool-queer-life-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}