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false 6284804 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/62/804/6284804-m-1255795914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/62/804/6284804-s-1255795914.jpg AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 6284804 1 6468839 1 4 2009 Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series) total:10|5:6|4:1|3:2|2:1| 10 42 20 2 673377 4.12 40 2 48969020 621969 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 5 0 false Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 16:35:59 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 16:40:12 -0700 2009 47250098 1507952 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 5 0 false Mon Feb 23 08:18:51 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 12 09:54:15 -0700 2009 72905566 207812 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 0 0 false Tue Sep 29 11:43:55 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 11:43:55 -0700 2009 71757953 2754530 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 3 0 false Sat Sep 19 06:07:49 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 06:07:49 -0700 2009 71043018 1629074 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 2 0 false Sun Sep 13 05:05:57 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 05:05:57 -0700 2009 70158890 3961 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 4 0 false Sat Sep 05 22:48:49 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 11:06:37 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 22:48:49 -0700 2009 64757881 583092 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 5 0 false Fri Jul 24 02:46:48 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 02:46:48 -0700 2009 58958232 139599 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Jun 08 23:07:05 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 23:07:05 -0700 2009 57472528 2357113 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 0 0 false Wed May 27 04:08:40 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 04:08:40 -0700 2009 54701710 872595 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 0 0 false Sat May 02 11:16:03 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 11:16:03 -0700 2009 54617580 1110931 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 0 0 false Fri May 01 13:28:05 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 13:28:05 -0700 2009 53805160 2252706 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 5 0 false Fri Apr 24 03:49:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 03:49:00 -0700 2009 51472545 745699 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 0 0 false Sat Apr 04 07:54:01 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 07:54:01 -0700 2009 51371364 201908 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 0 0 false Fri Apr 03 08:24:58 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 08:24:58 -0700 2009 50819220 2172646 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 0 0 false Sun Mar 29 11:52:59 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 11:52:59 -0700 2009 50596791 157182 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 5 0 false Fri Mar 27 05:58:40 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 16:38:58 -0700 2009 49434066 139801 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Mar 16 07:59:37 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 07:59:37 -0700 2009 49340941 1152486 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 0 0 false Sun Mar 15 10:06:16 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 10:06:16 -0700 2009 48095386 143942 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 3 0 false Tue Mar 03 06:22:53 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 06:23:03 -0800 2009 47423402 193092 6284804 0226503445 9780226503448 2 <![CDATA[Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets Series)]]> 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 AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot’s boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. 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. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “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 </DIV> (20080728)]]> 2009 5 0 false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 16:38:25 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 14:08:23 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6284804