Sense of Movement

Gunn, Thom. The Sense of Movement. Second edition. London, Faber & Faber, 1968. 12 cm x 18 cm. 62 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front free endpaper. Occasional markings. [Faber Paper Covered Editions.]. Contains among others the following On the Move; The Nature of an Action; At the Back of the North Wind; Before the Carnival; Human Condition; A Plan on Self Subjection; Birthday Poem; First Meeting with a Possible Mother-in-law; Autumn Chapter in a Novel; The Wheel of Fortune; The Silver Age; The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of his Death etc.

Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. After National Service and a short time living in Paris, he enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms, while he was still an undergraduate. In 1954 he moved to San Francisco and held a one-year Fellowship at Stanford University. He published over thirty books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Thom Gunn died in 2004.