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Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with a set of poems about the deaths of friends from AIDS. With their unflinching directness, compassion and grace, they are among the most moving statements yet to have been provoked by the disease. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)821.914Literature English & Old English literatures English poetry 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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My main complaint about the book, and the reason I gave it a lower rating than might be expected from what's typed above, is that the varying tones in the book make it a jarring read. This may well be on purpose, but so many of the poems are serious and meditative, while others are playful and joking (though still making meaning), that it's sometimes hard to transition from one poem to the next.
The characters and meanings are clear, but when you're wrapped up in story of love and social struggles, and suddenly a poem shows up which seems nearly wholly separate, the journey of the book as a whole is difficult to follow. As such, I think that some of the poems here would have been better included elsewhere, or at least in a single section, to make the more powerful book. On some level, I can see them useful as breaking the relatively heavy nature of the book, but I'm just not sure the effort really came through as positively as it could have.
Thus, I recommend the poems in the book, though I admit some disappointment with the construction of the volume as a whole. Still, separately, these are powerful beautiful poems, worth reading. ( )