Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Bisexual or feeling the effects of

or feeling the effects of the "loneliness epidemic

going to concerts

Abney’s paintings and collages use dynamic color and form to draw viewers into complex narratives

A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Bisexual or feeling the effects ofA no holds barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could "give the dead a voice, make them sing" (Hilton Als, The New Yorker). Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city's queerness, the hippie