"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...
"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.
作者简介
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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms (1954), while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. That same year, he moved to California and stayed there for the rest of his life, teaching at Berkeley and living in San Francisco. He published nine books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forw...
Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms (1954), while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. That same year, he moved to California and stayed there for the rest of his life, teaching at Berkeley and living in San Francisco. He published nine books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Gunn also published a Collected Poems (1994) and two collections of essays, The Occasions of Poetry (1982) and Shelf Life (1993). He was awarded many major prizes and fellowships from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. Thom Gunn died in 2004.Clive Wilmer is the author of eight books of poetry, including New and Collected Poems (2012) and Urban Pastorals (2014). He has written extensively on Thom Gunn's poetry and edited his first collection of essays, The Occasions of Poetry (1982). He is Emeritus Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
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The love of old men is not worth a lot,
Desperate and dry even when it is hot.
You cannot tell what is enthusiasm
And what involuntary clawing spasm. (查看原文)
She, a beautician, came to see her friend
Inside the morgue, whe she had had her cry.
She found the body dumped there all awry,
Not as she thought right for a person's end,
Left sideways like that on one arm and thigh.
In their familiarity with the dead
It was as if the men had not been kind
With her old friend, whose hair she was assigned
To fix and shape. She did not speak; instead
She gave her task a concentrated mind.
She did find in it some thin satisfaction
That she could use her tenderness as skill
To make her poor dead friend's hair beautiful
- As if she shaped an epitaph by her action,
She thought - being a beautician after all. (查看原文)
同名和 The Hug 真是陪我走了各类痛苦的事……在失眠或焦虑的夜晚重读了无数次 ㅠㅠ “I have to change the bed,/But catch myself instead/Stopped upright where I am/Hugging my body to me/As if to shield it from/The pains that will go through...同名和 The Hug 真是陪我走了各类痛苦的事……在失眠或焦虑的夜晚重读了无数次 ㅠㅠ “I have to change the bed,/But catch myself instead/Stopped upright where I am/Hugging my body to me/As if to shield it from/The pains that will go through me,/As if hands were enough/To hold an avalanche off.”（书搬家之后不知道在哪了只希望还能找到。）(展开)
"I have to change the bed, / But catch myself instead / Stopped upright where I am / Hugging my body to me / As if to shield it from / The pains that will go through me, / As if hands were enough / To..."I have to change the bed, / But catch myself instead / Stopped upright where I am / Hugging my body to me / As if to shield it from / The pains that will go through me, / As if hands were enough / To hold an avalanche off. " 第四部分直接记录了艾滋肆虐年代里肉身的苦痛与别离的悲怆，词句不事渲染，读来却很沉重感人。(展开)
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同名和 The Hug 真是陪我走了各类痛苦的事……在失眠或焦虑的夜晚重读了无数次 ㅠㅠ “I have to change the bed,/But catch myself instead/Stopped upright where I am/Hugging my body to me/As if to shield it from/The pains that will go through... 同名和 The Hug 真是陪我走了各类痛苦的事……在失眠或焦虑的夜晚重读了无数次 ㅠㅠ “I have to change the bed,/But catch myself instead/Stopped upright where I am/Hugging my body to me/As if to shield it from/The pains that will go through me,/As if hands were enough/To hold an avalanche off.”（书搬家之后不知道在哪了只希望还能找到。） (展开)
0 有用 苏夫佳 2018-03-11 14:11:33
"I have to change the bed, / But catch myself instead / Stopped upright where I am / Hugging my body to me / As if to shield it from / The pains that will go through me, / As if hands were enough / To... "I have to change the bed, / But catch myself instead / Stopped upright where I am / Hugging my body to me / As if to shield it from / The pains that will go through me, / As if hands were enough / To hold an avalanche off. " 第四部分直接记录了艾滋肆虐年代里肉身的苦痛与别离的悲怆，词句不事渲染，读来却很沉重感人。 (展开)
0 有用 特粉😳 2020-02-29 22:12:59
重阅，一，四部分多数诗和只有一首诗的第二部分是不可取代的杰作。