Thom Gunn
British-American poet who moved from formal verse to free verse and whose The Man with Night Sweats responded to the AIDS epidemic. He spent most of his life in San Francisco.
Works
- Fighting TermsEarly poems featuring aggressive imagery and motorcycle-gang culture
- The Sense of MovementPoems about motion, identity, and the experience of physical sensation
- My Sad CaptainsMeditative poems on loss, aging, and human connection
- Jack Straw's CastleAutobiographical sonnets about home, memory, and desire
- The Man with Night SweatsCollection addressing illness, mortality, and emotional survival during AIDS