Photographs from the Thom Gunn papers [graphic]. 1950-ca. 2000.

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Photographs from the Thom Gunn papers [graphic]. 1950-ca. 2000.

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Chielfy snapshots and portraits of poet Thom Gunn and his friends and family. Unidentified snapshots predominate. Many are of Gunn and his partner, Mike Kitay, from their stay in Texas in the mid-1950s through their later life in San Francisco, Calif. Includes one portrait of Gunn with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, several photographs of men on the sidewalk in San Francisco's Castro District, ca. 1980, and a panoramic photo collage of Gunn's text inscribed at the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. Many portraits of Gunn were probably taken for book jackets or promotion. Portraits and snapshots of Gunn and his family in England are present, ca. 1970-1990. Awards (objects) present consist of a medallion from the International Poetry Forum (1970), and a lucite literary award from the Pen Center USA West (1993).

2 boxes (ca. 480 photographic prints and 2 awards) 1 oversized folder (1 photographic print, 1 drawing) and 129 negatives : b&w and color ; 11 x 14 in. or smaller.

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Gunn, Thom

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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. His first book of poems, "Fighting Terms," was published in 1954, and Gunn was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University in the same year. From 1958 to 1966 and 1973 to 1990 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He received numerous awards during his life, most notably the MacArthur Fellowship for lifetime achievement in poetry in 1993. Gunn passed away in San Francisco, California, in 2004. Fr...

Gunn, Ander.

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