Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Style:Hardcover she looks forward to the

she looks forward to the experience the way a mountain climber approaches a precipitous peak

where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens

his manager calls that loyalty into question

and it’s okay to take your time finding your way home

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Style:Hardcover she looks forward to theBy: Michael Nott A 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,