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The Man with Night Sweats: Poems
by
Thom Gunn
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. It is also one of the few works of literature that have fully met both the aesthetic and the moral challenges that the AIDS epidemic poses. The nobility and sobriety of Thom Gunn...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
April 17th 2007
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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1993 PEN Center USA Award Winner for Poetry
Brilliant.
An excellent, emotional, heart-felt collection of poetry, truly poignant.
Joining the ranks as one of my favorites. Someday, I plan on committing some of these poems to memory.
Most moving to me, here, are Gunn's poems about AIDS. About his loved friends in hospitals, their bodies and illness and spirit rendered in formal verse. Utterly compelling to see the restraint of form around a contemporary and devastating subject.
This would be a 3 1/2-star book if I could do that. It was pretty consistenly good. Its main theme is death (from AIDS, in particular), but my south node is in the 8th house, so I'm all about that!
Read "Death's Door," the second-to-last poem. Holy shit, what an awesome poem. Funny and weird and heartbreaking. Five stars just for that. The rest of the book is great, too.
I loved this book, I read it awhile ago, it is gritty and full of moving, male- centered poems some stronger for me than others.
A very readable poet who tackles big subjects: in this case AIDS.
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