Thom Gunn - October 4, 1972

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn reads primarily from Moly (1971), along with many then-new poems that would be collected in Jack Straw's Castle (1976). He also reads several poems that would remain uncollected until his Collected Poems (1994).

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Introduction
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by Lois Shelton

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"The Goddess"
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Gunn, Thom. Collected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994.

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"Blackie the Electric Rembrandt"
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Gunn, Thom. My Sad Captains. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

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"Touch"
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Gunn, Thom. Collected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994.

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"Baby Song"
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Gunn, Thom. Jack Straw's Castle. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.

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"Street Song"
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Gunn, Thom. Moly. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.

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"Rites of Passage"
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Gunn, Thom. Moly. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.

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"Rites of Passage: II"
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by Robert Duncan

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Duncan, Robert. Ground Work: Before the War. New York: New Directions, 1984.

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"Three"
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Gunn, Thom. Moly. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.

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"Moly"
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Gunn, Thom. Moly. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.

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"The Garden of the Gods"
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Gunn, Thom. Moly. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.

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"The Idea of Trust"
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Gunn, Thom. Jack Straw's Castle. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.

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"The Plunge"
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Gunn, Thom. Jack Straw's Castle. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.

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"An Amorous Debate"
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Gunn, Thom. Jack Straw's Castle. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.

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"Wrestling with Angels"
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For Robert Duncan

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Gunn, Thom. "Wrestling." Jack Straw's Castle. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.

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"Autobiography"
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Gunn, Thom. Jack Straw's Castle. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.

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"Breaking Ground"
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Gunn, Thom. Jack Straw's Castle. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.

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"My Sad Captains"
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Gunn, Thom. My Sad Captains. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

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Thom Gunn
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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The University of Arizona Poetry Center
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