I admired what my students were writing…– Thom Gunn
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn’t directly result from me but from being in a class, being with
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn’t directly result from me but from being in a class, being with
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn’t write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was
As humans we look at things and think about what we’ve looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn’t even read Keats’s book
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