About the Author

Thom Gunn(1929-2004) studied with Yvor Winters at Stanford University and was a senior lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. He published more than 30 books of poetry in the United States and Britain, includingCollected Poems(1994) andBoss Cupid(2000).

Reviews

“It is just Winters’s brand of seriousness and his emphasis on logic and reason in poetry that contemporary verse sorely wants.” —David Yezzi, The New Criterion