Breakfast with Thom Gunn

by Randall Mann

Book Overview

Aubade

Those who lack a talent for love have come

to walk the long Pier 7. Here at the end

of the imagined world are three low-flying gulls

like lies on the surface; the slow red

of a pilot's boat; the groan

of a fisherman hacking a small shark--

and our speech like the icy water, a poor

translation that will not carry us across.

What brought us west, anyway? A hunger.

But ours...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226503445
• ISBN13: 9780226503448
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.5" x 8.5"