Selected Poems 1950-1975

by Thomas Gunn

The full range of Gunn's poetic powers is manifest in "The Wound," "On the Move," "The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of His Death," and other poems selected by Gunn from all of his full-length books

Genres: Poetry

131 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Steven Godin · Rating 4 out of 5]

One by one they appear in
the darkness: a few friends, and
a few with historical
names. How late they start to shine!
but before they fade they stand
perfectly embodied, all

the past lapping them like a
cloak of chaos. They were men
who, I thought, lived only to
renew the wasteful force they
spent with each hot convulsion.
They remind me, distant now.

True, they are not at rest yet,
but now that they are indeed
apart, winnowed from failures,
they withdraw to an orbit
and turn with disinterested
hard energy, like the stars.

[cam · Rating 3 out of 5]

3☆

[Mills College Library]

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