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Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix - Paperback, by Mann Randall - Acceptable
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780226503448
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226503445
ISBN-13
9780226503448
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70983967
Product Key Features
Book Title
Breakfast with Thom Gunn
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
General, American / General
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
Phoenix Poets Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
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0 in
Item Weight
4 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
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Trade
LCCN
2008-039079
Reviews
"Concise, witty and perhaps surprisingly grim, this second collection from Mann (Complaint in the Garden) pays homage to the titular poet, the British-born, San Francisco-resident Thom Gunn (who died in 2004). Mann emulates Gunn''s signature virtues: a wry, careful tone; tight rhymed and unrhymed forms; explicit delight in sex between men, and in the modern culture of gay liberation; and an appreciation for the Bay Area."-Publishers Weekly, [The] bright, ironic surfaces both render bearable Mann''s dark vision and somehow exacerbate it--an ambivalence wholly appropriate to such frank, pained poems., Randall Mann's second collection of poetry, Breakfast with Thom Gunn--aptly titled for its poetic inheritance of metrical clarity and its address of gay subculture--also uses moments of real social incident, transforming private history into odes to the afflicted. In this work, the many contradictions of desire touch the reader: politics, beauty, God, disease, love, art--all the world's addictions--and it achieves an entertainment that is satisfying when harsh., "With audacious wit and formal prowess equal to the master to whom he pays homage, Randall Mann has written a book both poignant and humorous, where one minute 'we stand above it all' and the next minute we are reading 'the notes of the drowned.' Mann invites us a into a ghastly metropolis, its emptiness and ruin nonetheless populated with remarkable sites of grace. If this were only the evacuated city, 'the nothingness behind us/the nothingness ahead,' the permanent red of Ilium scattered with fallen bodies, the feral world of nonchalant disease, rent boys and assassins, it would simply be another note of irretrievable loss in the parade of human history. But with purling fountains and lush gardens, Mann reveals the transitory but beguiling beauty that holds despair in abeyance, that reminds us of why desire propels us forward. 'Soon we will be underground,' he says, but for now we enjoy the cherries that dangle tantalizingly before us."-D. A. Powell, "Randall Mann's second collection of poetry, Breakfast with Thom Gunn-aptly titled for its poetic inheritance of metrical clarity and its address of gay subculture-also uses moments of real social incident, transforming private history into odes to the afflicted. In this work, the many contradictions of desire touch the reader: politics, beauty, God, disease, love, art-all the world's addictions-and it achieves an entertainment that is satisfying when harsh."-Miguel Murphy, Rain Taxi Review of Books, [The] bright, ironic surfaces both render bearable Mann's dark vision and somehow exacerbate it--an ambivalence wholly appropriate to such frank, pained poems., "Eloquence and anxiety lie side by side in Randall Mann's poems; careful craft and bravado also do. The verse brims with honesty. The voice scintillates. Breakfast with Thom Gunn is a necessary book, reminding us again and again of poetry as it''s meant to be-ambivalence expressed clearly."-Carol Frost, "Randall Mann's second collection of poetry, Breakfast with Thom Gunn-aptly titled for its poetic inheritance of metrical clarity and its address of gay subculture-also uses moments of real social incident, transforming private history into odes to the afflicted. In this work, the many contradictions of desire touch the reader: politics, beauty, God, disease, love, art-all the world's addictions-and it achieves an entertainment that is satisfying when harsh."-Miguel Murphy, Rain Taxi Review of Books , "With audacious wit and formal prowess equal to the master to whom he pays homage, Randall Mann has written a book both poignant and humorous, where one minute 'we stand above it all' and the next minute we are reading 'the notes of the drowned.' Mann invites us a into a ghastly metropolis, its emptiness and ruin nonetheless populated with remarkable sites of grace. If this were only the evacuated city, 'the nothingness behind us/the nothingness ahead,' the permanent red of Ilium scattered with fallen bodies, the feral world of nonchalant disease, rent boys and assassins, it would simply be another note of irretrievable loss in the parade of human history. But with purling fountains and lush gardens, Mann reveals the transitory but beguiling beauty that holds despair in abeyance, that reminds us of why desire propels us forward. 'Soon we will be underground,' he says, but for now we enjoy the cherries that dangle tantalizingly before us."-D. A. Powell , With audacious wit and formal prowess equal to the master to whom he pays homage, Randall Mann has written a book both poignant and humorous, where one minute 'we stand above it all' and the next minute we are reading 'the notes of the drowned.' Mann invites us a into a ghastly metropolis, its emptiness and ruin nonetheless populated with remarkable sites of grace. If this were only the evacuated city, 'the nothingness behind us/the nothingness ahead,' the permanent red of Ilium scattered with fallen bodies, the feral world of nonchalant disease, rent boys and assassins, it would simply be another note of irretrievable loss in the parade of human history. But with purling fountains and lush gardens, Mann reveals the transitory but beguiling beauty that holds despair in abeyance, that reminds us of why desire propels us forward. 'Soon we will be underground,' he says, but for now we enjoy the cherries that dangle tantalizingly before us., "Craft and bravura mix well here, as they do in Gunn, and Mann shows himself his mentor''s apt pupil."-Los Angeles Times, Randall Mann's second collection of poetry, Breakfast with Thom Gunn-aptly titled for its poetic inheritance of metrical clarity and its address of gay subculture-also uses moments of real social incident, transforming private history into odes to the afflicted. In this work, the many contradictions of desire touch the reader: politics, beauty, God, disease, love, art-all the world's addictions-and it achieves an entertainment that is satisfying when harsh.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments I Early Morning on Market Street Election Day But Politics Fetish Song Queen Christina The Mortician in San Francisco Aubade Bernal Hill The Sunset Abandoned Landscapes Short Short Charity Ruin Pure Last Call II Pastoral Syntax Little Colonial Song The Lake of Nostalgia The End of Landscape Ode Night: A Fragment Breakfast with Thom Gunn Ovid in San Francisco Ganymede on Polk Street Orpheus at Café Flore Stranded Modern Art To Francis Bacon Reception Career Postcard from California The Long View N III Ocean Beach Translation Lexington Design The Rape of Ganymede Colloquy between A and B Intimacy Monday Seeking Well, Here We Are A View South City Poetry Fiction Notes
Synopsis
Aubade Those who lack a talent for love have come to walk the long Pier 7. Here at the end of the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow red of a pilot's boat; the groan of a fisherman hacking a small shark-- and our speech like the icy water, a poor translation that will not carry us across. What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feed only 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
LC Classification Number
PS3613.A55B74 2009
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