Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life: A Cool Queer Life JustBecause and the realization that it

and the realization that it takes only one to change the world

Navy gave him a medical discharge

New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library

Viego descends into madness and grief

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Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life: A Cool Queer Life JustBecause and the realization that itA 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