Thom Gunn A Cool Queer Life Italy Dália might just be able

Dália might just be able to survive long enough to grow into her new role

Beat fear and uncertainty

Except that Paisley is the commanding general's daughter

Timely and masterfully told

But it does make for one hell of a story

Thom Gunn A Cool Queer Life Italy Dália might just be ableA no holds barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could "give the dead a voice, make them sing" (Hilton Als, The New Yorker). Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city's queerness, the hippie