Thom Gunn A Cool Queer Life Italy When a new family moves

When a new family moves in

Except that Paisley is the commanding general's daughter

avoiding crowds and trouble spots

and your entire church begin to identify dreams and future miracles to draw prayer circles around

But it does make for one hell of a story

Thom Gunn A Cool Queer Life Italy When a new family movesA 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