Gunn, Thom 1995
I thought I was so tough,
But gentled at your hands,
Cannot be quick enough
To fly for you and show
That when I go I go
At your commands.
– Thom Gunn, “Tamer and Hawk”
Listen to Thom Gunn’s Poetry Center of Chicago reading:
Read an interview with Thom Gunn from the Paris Review:
The Art of Poetry No. 72
Thom Gunn 1960 Hampstead-White Stone Pond. Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, on the southern bank of the Thames estuary, in 1929. His childhood was spent mostly in that county, Kent, and in the affluent suburb of Hampstead in northwest London. A relatively happy boyhood was overshadowed firs…
One by one they appear in
the darkness: a few friends, and
a few with historical
names. How late they start to shine!
– Thom Gunn, “My Sad Captains”
Listen to Thom Gunn read two of his poems:
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