Selected Poems Page Powars Fruit of the Drunken Tree

Fruit of the Drunken Tree is a powerful testament to the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation

she grew up during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s

Who will be the first to break

getting support

Beginning as a trainer in the civil rights movement of the 1960s

Selected Poems Page Powars Fruit of the Drunken TreeThom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous time in which he lived. Gunn's dozens of brilliantly realized poems about nature, friendship, literature, sexual love, and death are set against the ever changing backdrop of San Francisco the druggy, politically charged