The Man with Night Sweats: Poems (FSG Classics)

Gunn, Thom

ISBN 10: 0374530688 / ISBN 13: 9780374530686

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Man with Night Sweats: Poems (FSG Classics)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374530688
• ISBN 13: 9780374530686
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.