Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Bisexual going to concerts

going to concerts

protected by the children of the Orisha

A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka

or feeling the effects of the "loneliness epidemic

Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Bisexual going to concertsA no holds barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could "give the dead a voice, make them sing" (Hilton Als, The New Yorker). Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city's queerness, the hippie