Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Bisexual protected by the children of

protected by the children of the Orisha

As summer fades to fall Ines tries to uphold the bliss of their intoxicating summer

the two friends get together

Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret

Abney’s paintings and collages use dynamic color and form to draw viewers into complex narratives

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Bisexual protected by the children ofA 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