The Man with Night Sweats (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Thom Gunn
- First Published: 1987
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Death or dying, AIDS, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Diseases, Morality or morals, Meditation, Aesthetics
The Work
The Man with Night Sweats is a collection of poems whose subject is the way people face death, particularly the way that gay men suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) have courageously fought that disease. Thom Gunn’s book was praised by critics as a landmark, one of the first books of poetry about AIDS. Paul Monette’s Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988) was one of the first works of prose on this subject.
Born in England, Gunn has lived in San Francisco since 1960. Changing social attitudes and life in a more liberated...
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