biography
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Gunn, Thom(son William)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Gravesend, Kent, SE England, UK. After studying at Cambridge, he went to California (1954), where he taught English at Stanford and Berkeley. His often erotic poems are written in an intriguing variety of regular and free forms. Volumes include Fighting Terms (1954), Jack Straw's Castle (1976), The Passages of Joy (1982), The Man With Night Sweats (1992), Shelf Life (1993), and Frontiers of Gossip (1997). |
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