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  • The Letters of Thom Gunn

    by Thom Gunn ...
    The Letters of Thom Gunn presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry.“I write about love, I write about friendship,” remarked Thom Gunn. “I find that they are absolutely intertwined.” These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and they ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Boss Cupid

    Poems

    by Thom Gunn ...
    A great poet's freshest, most provocative book.He dreams at the center of a closed system,Like the prison system, or a system of love,Where folktale, recipe, and household customRefer back to the maze that they are of.--from "A System: PCP, or Angel Dust"Taste and appetite are contraposed in Boss Cupid, the twelfth book of poems by the quintessential San Francisco poet, who is also the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Selected Poems

    by Thom Gunn ...
    A new selection of poems by the celebrated gay poetThom Gunn has been described as "one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century" ( Times Literary Supplement). Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Sense of Movement

    by Thom Gunn ...
    The Sense of Movement, Thom Gunn's second collection, was first published in 1957.'This book . . . establishes Gunn as one of the few really interesting poets of his generation and promises greatly for the future.' Times Literary Supplement ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • The Man with Night Sweats

    Poems

    by Thom Gunn ...
    Series series FSG Poetry
    With an illuminating new introduction by Colm Tóibín, here is Thom Gunn’s extraordinary memorial to love, life, and death in the time of the AIDS crisis.The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive.Thom Gunn’s collection is one of the few works of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500

    Edited by Simon Gunn, Tom Hulme ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Urban History
    Urban power and politics are topics of abiding interest for students of the city. This exciting collection of essays explores how Europe’s cities have been governed across the last 500 years. Taken as a whole, it provides a unique historical overview of urban politics in early modern and modern Europe. At the same time, it guides the reader through the variety of ways in which power and governance ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Gunn Sights

    Taking Aim on Selling in the High-Stakes Industry of International Aerospace

    by Tom Gunn ...
    In 1975, Tom Gunn had a life-altering career change when he went from an eight-year stint as staff lawyer with the U. S. Senate to a job in aerospace sales and marketing at McDonnell Douglas. Gunn knew a lot about military appropriations and classified developments; he knew almost nothing about marketing, which may have been the most important attribute he brought to the job. Over the next 22 ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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    On Memory and Lament

    by Richard Holloway ...
    Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life’s challenges. Now he shares those poems and words which have been his own guide, offered in the hope they will help us too.This is a book to turn to for inspiration, guidance and comfort. It offers ... Read more

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  • An Ordinary Dog

    by Gregory Woods ...
    Both intimate and detached, this poetry compilation delves into the politics and aesthetics of desire—sacred and profane, frantic and serene, refined and grubby. Reflecting upon the comedy of human needs and the vanity of human wishes, these poems consider times of crisis when history is lived and reinvented, myth degenerates into faith, and reason falters. On this journey in which chance always ... Read more

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  • The houses of history

    A critical reader in history and theory, second edition

    by Anna Green, Kathleen Troup ...
    The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, public history and the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Nostos and Algos

    by Manolis ...
    In Nostos and Algos a mature poet tells a simple story and yet underlying it all is a tension formed by intense, glaring, cutting, gripping and captivating images. This collection, Manolis' best so far, is subtle and unexpected, and you are left to imagine what may occur. You feel this sense of expectation in many of the poems, and this keeps them from feeling dry or overwrought. Most fascinating ... Read more

    $4.50 USD

  • The Four Quartets

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which ... Read more

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