Chitra Ganesh, In the Zenana (detail), 2018, linocut on tan BFK Rives. Courtesy of the artist and Durham Press.
An Interview with Thom Gunn
David Gewanter is the author of In the Belly and The Sleep of Reason (both from University of Chicago Press) and co-editor, with Frank Bidart, of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Faber and Faber). His latest book, War Bird, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2009. Awards include a Hopwood Prize, Zacharis First Book Prize, Whiting Writer’s Fellowship, and Witter Bynner Fellowship. He was a finalist for the James Laughlin Prize, and his edition of Lowell won the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union and “Book of the Year” from Contemporary Poetry Review. He teaches at Georgetown University. (updated 12/2016)
The Selected Poems of Thom Gunn was published in 2009 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (updated 7/2010)
“An Interview with Thom Gunn” by David Gewanter appeared in AGNI 36.