{"product_id":"the-man-with-night-sweats-poems-9780374618476","title":"The Man with Night Sweats: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an illuminating new introduction by Colm Tóibín, here is Thom Gunn's extraordinary memorial to love, life, and death in the time of the AIDS crisis. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man with Night Sweats\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThom Gunn's collection is one of the few works of literature that have fully met both the aesthetic and the moral challenges that the AIDS epidemic posed. The \"plague\" Gunn refers to has a specific contemporary connotation, but it inevitably takes on other, wider meanings as well: historical, cultural, existential. His quiet, restrained lines, which draw frankly from the great tradition of English lyric verse, respond to the harrowing realities of his--our--world with a stupefying simplicity and directness. The nobility and sobriety of his forms enhance and underscore the gravity and pathos of his subjects. The results have the cathartic and healing power of great art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition, with a new introduction by Colm Tóibín and a striking cover image by David Hockney, proves that even thirty years on, \u003ci\u003eThe Man with Night Sweats\u003c\/i\u003e is unsurpassed in its elegiac intensity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374618476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2026 pg. 62\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thom Gunn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801257570485,"sku":"9780374618476","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-man-with-night-sweats-poems-9780374618476","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}