My Sad Captains

Name: My Sad Captains
Author: Thom Gunn

by Thom Gunn

Meditative poems on loss, aging, and human connection

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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