In his [Collected Poems] Thom Gunn has assembled all the work he
considers worthy from throughout his remarkable career. Gunn's
first book, Fighting Terms (1954), was quickly identified in The
Cambridge Review as "one of the few volumes of post-war verse that
all serious readers of poetry need to possess and study", and in
the four decades since, he has come to be recognized as one of the
finest poets writing in English. Collected Poems establishes the
breadth and formal catholicity of his work, from the classically
inspired early poems to the stylistically exuberant poems of the
1960s to the elegiac rhymed verse of The Man with Night Sweats
(1992), in which, as John Updike wrote in The New Yorker, "the
tension of Gunn's famous earlier poems...has become muted and
commemorative". Born in 1929 and raised in Britain, Gunn has lived
in northern California since 1954, and he describes himself as an
Anglo-American poet. His poetry is likewise a mixture of apparently
discordant elements, and he has made a specialty of playing style
against subject, dealing with the out-of-control through tightly
controlled meters and with the systematized through open forms.
Some of the contents of Collected Poems has been out of print for
many years. This gathering together of the full range of Thom
Gunn's work reveals the enormous extent of his creative
achievement.
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