false 673377 0 3 male Provo, Utah 455734 1431294 0321474066 9780321474063 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183533289m/1431294.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183533289s/1431294.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1431294.Writing_Poems 3.80 10 Writing Poems</B></U> is appropriate for both the beginning and advanced poet. Its anthology of classic and contemporary poems enlivens its readers' understanding of poetry, illustrates poetic principles, and, above all, inspires writing. With clear explanations, a lively presentation, and in-depth discussions, this book demystifies the process of writing poems and provides the guidance needed to help writers improve their craft. For anyone interested in writing poetry]]> 335580 3.82 44 8 98410 3.53 17 1 673377 4.12 40 2 1982 1431293 1932023127 9781932023121 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183533289m/1431293.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183533289s/1431293.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1431293.Complaint_in_the_Garden 4.25 20 673377 4.12 40 2 2004 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/62/804/6284804-m-1255795914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/62/804/6284804-s-1255795914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6284804.Breakfast_with_Thom_Gunn 4.20 10 Aubade</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Those who lack a talent for love have come</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">to walk the long Pier 7. Here at the end</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">of the imagined world are three low-flying gulls</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">like lies on the surface; the slow red</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">of a pilot’s boat; the groan</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">of a fisherman hacking a small shark—</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">and our speech like the icy water, a poor</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">translation that will not carry us across.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">What brought us west, anyway? A hunger.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">But ours is no Donner Party, we who feed</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">only on scenery, the safest form </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">            </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Randall Mann’s Breakfast with Thom Gunn is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929–2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and California, but the backdrop is “pitiless,” the trees “thin and bloodless,” the words “like the icy water” of the San Francisco Bay. Mann, fiercely intelligent, open yet elusive, draws on the “graceful erosion” of both landscape and the body, on the beauty that lies in unbeauty. With audacity, anxiety, and unbridled desire, this gifted lyric poet grapples with dilemmas of the gay self embroiled in—and aroused by—a glittering, unforgiving subculture. Breakfast with Thom Gunn is at once formal and free, forging a sublime integrity in the fire of wit, intensity, and betrayal.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Praise for Complaint in the Garden    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">“We have before us a skillful, witty, passionate young poet. . . . Randall Mann is both attuned to and at odds with the natural world; he articulates the passions and predicaments of a self inside a massive, arousing, but sometimes brutal culture. And he accomplishes these things with buoyant lyric sensibilities and rejuvenating skills.”—Kenyon Review</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"> </P></DIV> (20080728)]]> 673377 4.12 40 2 2009 5167451 0226503437 9780226503431 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5167451.Breakfast_with_Thom_Gunn 0.0 0 673377 4.12 40 2 2009