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"I write about love, I write about friendship," marked Thom Gunn. "I find that they are abso-luody intertwined." These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and they shed new light on "one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century" (Hugh Haughton, The Times Literary Supplement). The Loners of Thorn Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler, Michael Non, and Clive Wilmer, reveals the evolution of Gunn's work and illumine es the fascinating life that informed his poems : his struggle to come to terms with his mother's suicide ; settling in San Francisco and his complex relationship with England ; his changing relationship with his life partner, Mike Kiwy ; the LSD trips that led to his celebrated collection Moly (1971) ; and the deaths of friends from AIDS that inspired the powerful, unsparing elegies of The Man with Night Sweatt (1992).