Fighting Terms

Name: Fighting Terms
Author: Thom Gunn

by Thom Gunn

Early poems featuring aggressive imagery and motorcycle-gang culture

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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.

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The Sense of MovementPoems about motion, identity, and the experience of physical sensation
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The Man with Night SweatsCollection addressing illness, mortality, and emotional survival during AIDS