Two by Thom Gunn
Touch. Faber and Faber, 1967. Hardbound. $30.
Moly. Faber and Faber, 1971. Hardbound. $30.
Two collections by the paradoxical English poet, featuring fantastic hand-lettered, spot-color jackets. Edmund White described Gunn as 'the last of the commune dwellers . . . serious and intellectual by day and druggy and sexual by night', and these post-formalist books, written after Gunn's emigration to the US, reflect this sentiment: Touch explores the often claustrophobic intimacy of the city ('Out of night now the flesh-tint starts to dawn') and Moly offers up psychedelic reflections on a late-stage Edenic California ('The root was black, the flower was as white as milk').
Both books have tight, square spines and clean, unmarked interiors. Both have light shelf-wear, as do their jackets. Featured Rare & Collectible.
