Jack Straw's Castle

Name: Jack Straw's Castle
Author: Thom Gunn

by Thom Gunn

Autobiographical sonnets about home, memory, and desire

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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 Man with Night SweatsCollection addressing illness, mortality, and emotional survival during AIDS