Boss Cupid

A great poet's freshest, most provocative book. He dreams at the center of a closed system, Like...
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Author: Thom Gunn
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Language: English
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Boss Cupid by Gunn, Thom

Boss Cupid

$36.25

Boss Cupid

$36.25
Author: Thom Gunn
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A great poet's freshest, most provocative book.

He dreams at the center of a closed system,
Like the prison system, or a system of love,
Where folktale, recipe, and household custom
Refer back to the maze that they are of.
--from A System: PCP, or Angel Dust

Taste and appetite are contraposed in Boss Cupid, the twelfth book of poems by the quintessential San Francisco poet, who is also the quintessential craftsman and quintessentially a love poet, though not of quintessential love.Variations on how we are ruled by our desires, these poems make a startling and eloquent gloss on wanton want, moving freely from the story of King David and Bathsheba to Arthur Rimbaud's diet to the tastes of Jeffrey Dahmer. As warm and intelligent as it is ribald and cunning, this collection of Thom Gunn's is his richest yet.

Author: Thom Gunn
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 04/09/2001
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780374527716


Award: Triangle Awards - Winner

About the Author

Thom Gunn, born in 1929, has received many awards, most recently a Lila Acheson Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. His works include The Man with Night Sweats and Collected Poems.




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