The Man with Night Sweats: Poems

With an illuminating new introduction by Colm Tóibín, here is Thom Gunn’s extraordinary memorial to love, life, and death in the time of the AIDS crisis.

The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive.

Thom Gunn’s collection is one of the few works of literature that have fully met both the aesthetic and the moral challenges that the AIDS epidemic po...