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The Man with Night Sweats: Poems (FSG Classics) Paperback – April 17, 2007

by Thom Gunn (Author), August Kleinzahler (Introduction)
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The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is also one of the few works of literature that have fully met both the aesthetic and the moral challenges that the AIDS epidemic poses. The nobility and sobriety of Thom Gunn's forms enhance and underscore the gravity and pathos of his subjects. The results have the cathartic and healing power of great art.

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    5.5 x 0.26 x 8.5 inches
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    0374530688
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"Perhaps his most wary, moving, personal book to date. It is a forceful reminder that Gunn . . . is one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century . . . He writes of and from the modern climate, as if wholly at home here; these new poems have a claim to be some of the most authentic occasional poems of our time. - Hugh Haughton, The Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was born in England but lived in San Francisco for most of his life. He was the author of two volumes of essays in addition to his volumes of poetry.

Thom's poetry books include Boss Cupid and The Man with Night Sweats.



August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock. His collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, and Sleeping It Off in Rapid City won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. That same year he received a Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Francisco.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition (April 17, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374530688
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374530686
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.26 x 8.5 inches
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William A,Tosches MD
5.0 out of 5 stars A Poet’s encounters with an Epidemic
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2019
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Thom Gunn’s poetry is a deep and moving story of the AIDS epidemic as only a poet might express
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Gina Ritter
5.0 out of 5 stars 16yo asked for this for Christmas because he'd had to ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2017
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16yo asked for this for Christmas because he'd had to really study one of the poems for a school project and wanted the whole book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars AIDS poems
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4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, sad, and moving poetry
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2000
Thom Gunn is a masterful poet, and this is a book full of beauty and pain. Many of the poems deal directly with AIDS, many (such as the title work) with heroin use. And yet they are not preachy, or sentimental. He is in firm control of difficult subject matter.
Also pleasing is his use of rhythm and meter -- Gunn is one of apparently few modern poets who still writes powerfully within a given meter and rhyme scheme.
Not light or easy reading, these poems are sad and sobering. Tears are advised but not required.
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Duncan Armstrong
5.0 out of 5 stars spiritual and delightful - deserves its modern American classic reputation - a great book by a poet whose work should not be ...
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2014
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Powerful, emotional, humours, sensual, spiritual and delightful - deserves its modern American classic reputation - a great book by a poet whose work should not be missed or relegated to being read only by university students - this is poetry for everyone.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016
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Good poem!
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Joseph J. Hanssen
5.0 out of 5 stars Gunn with Feeling!
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2000
Thom Gunn's "Night Sweats" is one of his finest books of poetry. He is a master at writing lines that are so rhythmatic and flowing. These poems deal with AIDS and also drug use. They are not easy to read, and very sad at times. But they deal with problems and subjects most of us have had to face in the last 20 years, whether we liked it or not. There is true feeling and honesty here. I especially enjoyed "In the Time of Plague" and "Memory Unsettled."
I recommend this book as part of your permanent collection to be read again and again. Thom Gunn's poetry is the best.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I bought this book for a literature class and had ...
Reviewed in Canada on August 4, 2015
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I bought this book for a literature class and had to analyze the book cover to cover and honestly I would have read it even if I didn't need it for my grade. The poetry is extremly well written and hits me with waves of emotion because I can connect with the poetry in many ways. I highly recomend this collection of poems!
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2016
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On of the greatest book of poems of the twentieth century!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Another Good Book
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This is a fantastic book. A true classic page turner you cannot go wrong purchasing this book. Imaginative and hunting read.
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