Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview

by Thom Gunn

Book Overview

Born and raised in Britain, Thom Gunn has lived in the United States since 1954. He is well known as a poet and is increasingly gaining recognition as a literary critic. Gunn's main concern in Shelf Life is with twentieth-century American poets, both the famous and the obscure; he also discusses other matters, including the Elizabethans, Christopher Isherwood as man and stylist, and Gunn's own poetry, which he touches on indirectly in the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472065416
• ISBN13: 9780472065417
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"