Volume 47, Number 10 · June 15, 2000
Separate Beds
By James Fenton
Boss Cupid
by Thom Gunn
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 111 pp., $22.00
Readers of Thom Gunn's previous volume, The Man with Night Sweats, may remember the opening poem, 'The Hug.' It is written in iambic lines of varying lengths, each ending with a (usually) monosyllabic rhyme word, irregularly patterned: it is what you might call an irregular ode. Here are the opening lines:
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