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Thom Gunn reads his poems "Jamesian" and "The Home"
Thom Gunn reads his poems "Jamesian" and "The Home"
"Listen to this poetry reading to hear the poet Thom Gunn read his poems ""Jamesian"" and ""The Home."" Gunn (1929--2004) wrote poems about nature, friendship, literature, love, and death, set against the ever-changing backdrop of San Francisco—the druggy, politically charged sixties and the plague years of AIDS in the eighties. Learn more about the poet Thom Gunn and find his poetry collections at us.macmillan.com
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Black Jackets - Thom Gunn (Brit Lit Final Exam Project)
Black Jackets - Thom Gunn (Brit Lit Final Exam Project)
Video for my Brit Lit Final Exam. Words/Poem: "Black Jackets" by Thom Gunn Music: Cells (Sin City) - The Servant All images are credited at the end of the video. I in no way own the rights to either the publication of "Black Jackets" or to the music track "Cells". This video is purely fan made and is not in any way representative of the views or opinions of the artists whose work is credited.
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Thom Gunn reads Elizabeth Bishop's "Varick Street" and "Sonnet"
Thom Gunn reads Elizabeth Bishop's "Varick Street" and "Sonnet"
"Listen to this poetry reading to hear poet Thom Gunn read Elizabeth Bishop's ""Varick Street"" and ""Sonnet,"" both of which can be found in Bishop's The Complete Poems, 1927-1979. Learn more about the poetry collection The Complete Poems, 1927-1979, at us.macmillan.com Read about Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop at us.macmillan.com Learn more about poet Thom Gunn at us.macmillan.com
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Black Jacket by Thom Gunn
Black Jacket by Thom Gunn
Black Jacket by Thom GunnBlack Jackets In the silence that prolongs the span Rawly of music when the record ends, The red-haired boy who drove a van In weekday overalls but, like his friends, Wore cycle boots and jacket here To suit the Sunday hangout he was in, Heard, as he stretched back from his beer, Leather creak softly round his neck and chin. Before him, on a coal-black sleeve Remote exertion had lined, scratched, and burned Insignia that could not revive The heroic fall or climb where they were earned. On the other drinkers bent together, Concocting selves for their impervious kit, He saw it as no more than leather Which, taught across the shoulders grown to it, Sent through the dimness of a bar As sudden and anonymous hints of light As those that shipping give, that are Now flickers in the Bay, now lost in sight. He stretched out like a cat, and rolled The bitterish taste of beer upon his tongue, And listened to a joke being told: The present was the things he stayed among. If it was only loss he wore, He wore it to assert, with fierce devotion, Complicity and nothing more. He recollected his initiation, And one especially of the rites. For on his shoulders they had put tattoos: The group's name on the left, The Knights, And on the right the slogan Born to Lose.
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Gary the Snail poetry (Thom Gunn - Considering the Snail)
Gary the Snail poetry (Thom Gunn - Considering the Snail)
Spongebob's Gary the Snail recites Thom Gunn's poem, 'Considering the Snail' at an open mic event hosted by Squidward Tentacles.
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Loot, from Collected Poems, by Thom Gunn :: A Literature Break
Loot, from Collected Poems, by Thom Gunn :: A Literature Break
Nath Jones reads "Loot".
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Thom Gunn Poem Expression
Thom Gunn Poem Expression
Thom Gunn's poem, "Expression," read by Brad Craft.
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Humalit Poetry Recital: Thom Gunn - Considering the Snail
Humalit Poetry Recital: Thom Gunn - Considering the Snail
Thom Gunn's Considering the Snail Perfomed by : Carlos Misa The snail pushes through a green night, for the grass is heavy with water and meets over the bright path he makes, where rain has darkened the earth's dark. He moves in a wood of desire, pale antlers barely stirring as he hunts. I cannot tell what power is at work, drenched there with purpose, knowing nothing. What is a snail's fury? All I think is that if later I parted the blades above the tunnel and saw the thin trail of broken white across litter, I would never have imagined the slow passion to that deliberate progress
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Thom Gunn - Touch
Thom Gunn - Touch
Thom Gunn - Touch - Read by Blake Morrison Touch by Thom Gunn (1929-2004) You are already asleep. I lower myself in next to you, my skin slightly numb with the restraint of habits, the patina of self, the black frost of outsideness, so that even unclothed, it is a resilient chilly hardness, a superficially malleable, dead rubbery texture. You are a mound of bedclothes, where the cat in sleep braces its paws against your calf through the blankets, and kneads each paw in turn. Meanwhile and slowly I feel a is it my own warmth surfacing or the ferment of your whole body that in darkness beneath the cover is stealing bit by bit to break down that chill. You turn and hold me tightly, do you know who I am or am I your mother or the nearest human being to hold on to in a dreamed pogrom. What I, now loosened, sink into is an old big place, it is there already, for you are already there, and the cat got there before you, it is hard to locate. What is more, the place is not found but seeps from our touch in continuous creation, dark enclosing cocoon round ourselves alone, dark wide realm where we walk with everyone.
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Poet August Kleinzahler reads Thom Gunn's poem "Moly"
Poet August Kleinzahler reads Thom Gunn's poem "Moly"
"Listen to this poetry reading to hear poet August Kleinzahler read Thom Gunn's poem ""Moly,"" from his poetry collection The Man with Night Sweats, a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness. Learn more about the book The Man with Night Sweats at us.macmillan.com Read more about poet Thom Gunn at us.macmillan.com Read about poet August Kleinzahler at us.macmillan.com
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The Hug - Thom Gunn
The Hug - Thom Gunn
The Hug It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who'd showed us in the end To a bed I reached in one drunk stride. Already I lay snug, And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side. I dozed, I slept. My sleep broke on a hug, Suddenly, from behind, In which the full lengths of our bodies pressed: Your instep to my heel, My shoulder-blades against your chest. It was not sex, but I could feel The whole strength of your body set, Or braced, to mine, And locking me to you As if we were still twenty-two When our grand passion had not yet Become familial. My quick sleep had deleted all Of intervening time and place. I only knew The stay of your secure firm dry embrace. Thom Gunn
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Thom Gunn Quotes
Thom Gunn Quotes
What was your favorite Thom Gunn quote? 'Like' and leave a comment below, then jump over to quotetank.com and make a list of your favorites, so you'll never forget! We update our Twitter and Facebook with new quotes every few minutes, don't miss out! twitter.com | www.facebook.com If you enjoyed these quotes, please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE! Who is Thom Gunn? , was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style.
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Watching Art 103
Watching Art 103
The poem is "The annihilation of nothing" by Thom Gunn. The song is "Cuéntame al oído" by La Oreja de van Gogh. The paintings are "Ascension of Christ" by Dalí and five surrealist landscapes by Yves Tanguy.
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Mike Palmer
Mike Palmer
Mike Palmer: I received my AB in English from UC Berkeley in 1978. While at Cal I took classes from the poet Thom Gunn and the prose writer Leonard Michaels. I recently took a poetry workshop from Sharon Coleman at Berkeley City College. I've been published in the Berkeley Poetry Review and Milvia Street. For about 25 years I've been employed as an administrative assistant at UC Berkeley.
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Raccontarsi in versi, Menotti Lerro, Carocci, 2012.
Raccontarsi in versi, Menotti Lerro, Carocci, 2012.
Il volume ripercorre le teorie critiche fondanti del genere autobiografico, dal periodo illuminista agli sviluppi più recenti, che a partire dagli anni Sessanta (con i saggi di Roy Pascal e Jean Starobinski) hanno avuto un sempre maggiore impulso. Propone - in contrasto con la definizione imprescindibile e ormai classica di Philippe Lejeune - una maggiore efficacia della poesia ai fini narrativi dell'autobiografia, riconoscendo alla scrittura poetica quella capacità straordinaria di dire ciò che "lingua mortal non dice", per citare Leopardi. Seamus Heaney, Thom Gunn, Carlos Barral e Jaime Gil de Biedma sono i testimoni dell'impulso lirico-autobiografico in Inghilterra e in Spagna (1950-80). Nella loro poesia si rileva un sapiente svelamento del sé attraverso ricordi, luoghi e oggetti che spesso li caratterizzano e che permettono, a chi ripercorre il proprio vissuto attraverso la scrittura, di ritrovare e ridare significati essenziali alla ricostruzione dell'identità soggettiva, ma anche della propria comunità d'appartenenza.
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On the Fly: Mona Simpson
On the Fly: Mona Simpson
Mona E. Simpson (born Mona Jandali, June 14, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist. She is a UCLA professor of English. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with Jackson Burgess, Seamus Heaney, Leonard Michaels and Thom Gunn. After receiving a BA in English from Berkeley in 1979, she enrolled at Columbia University, where she earned an MFA She worked for Paris Review during this period. At Columbia she began her first published novel, "Anywhere but Here", the story of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship. The book became a bestseller when published by Knopf in 1987, and was subsequently adapted into a film in 1999. "Anywhere But Here" was followed by "The Lost Father" (which was based on her attempts to find her father Jandali, who had left her and her mother when Simpson was aged five) and "A Regular Guy". She has since published the novel "Off Keck Road", which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award. Excerpts from her new novel "My Hollywood" have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, and on This American Life. Simpson is also a contributor to various anthologies and essay collections. She is the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College. She was married to the television writer and producer Richard Appel and they have two children. Appel, a writer for The Simpsons, used his wife's name for Homer Simpson's mother, beginning with the episode "Mother <b>...</b>
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The Man with Night Sweats 001.avi
The Man with Night Sweats 001.avi
Poem by Thom Gunn (29 August 1929 - 25 April 2004)
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Hide/Seek: "Unfinished Painting" by Keith Haring
Hide/Seek: "Unfinished Painting" by Keith Haring
Discussion by David C. Ward, co-curator of "Hide/Seek" and Historian at the National Portrait Gallery. In the midst of the AIDS crisis, the poet Thom Gunn said he never thought there was a " 'gay community' until the thing was vanishing." In 1990, 18447 Americans died of AIDS. The artist Keith Haring would be one of them, passing away on February 16, 1990, at age thirty-one. Haring had vaulted to public prominence as a graffiti artist whose comical and mysterious cartoons started appearing randomly in New York City's subway system and led him to mainstream fame in the art world. The sketchy, skittering nature of his drawing is worked into this painting, but the structure of the unfinished work gives it a formal weight. The hanging strings of the unfinished painting suggest not just incompletion but unraveling. "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" was on view at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, from October 30 through February 13, 2011 For more on the exhibit, visit the exhibit website at: npg.si.edu . Keith Haring (1958-1990) Acrylic on canvas, 1989 Katia Perlstein
