Selected PoemsThom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous time in which he lived. Gunn's dozens of brilliantly realized poems about nature, friendship, literature, sexual love, and death are set against the ever changing backdrop of San Francisco the druggy, politically charged