In some respects a sequel to The Man With Night Sweats, Boss Cupid is a memorialising of friends who have died, an anatomy of survival, and a self-portrait of the poet in age. The poems are written under the sign of Cupid, 'devious master of our bodies', but their intimacies are always heard against the sociable human hum of an entire community which Gunn depicts in poems of fluent grace, as formal as they are relaxed.
- ISBN10 0374115575
- ISBN13 9780374115579
- Publish Date 1 April 2000 (first published 6 March 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Edition Cloth First Published 1989 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 111
- Language English