Selected Poems Page Powars Beginning as a trainer in

Beginning as a trainer in the civil rights movement of the 1960s

Who will be the first to break

Everything happens under Tomoko's watchful eye

she starts to lose her grip on the present

Selected Poems Page Powars Beginning as a trainer inThom 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