Thom Gunn's poem "The Problem"
The second installment of our film series about poet Thom Gunn. In this film, director Steven Lai adapts Thom Gunn's "The Problem", an artful poem about LGBTQ relations in the 1960s. In this poem Gunn provides a nuanced telling of one night stand between two LGBTQ strangers and the resonant realization that follows the next morning. Subscribe to the Blank Verse Films YouTube channel for more poetry films. Full text of the poem below.
~~ ~The Poem~ ~~
"The Problem" by Thom Gunn
Close to the top
Of an encrusted dark
Converted brownstone West of Central
Park
(For this was 1961)
In his room that,
A narrow hutch,
Was sliced from some once-cavernous
flat,
There now a window took a whole wall
up
And tints were bleached-out by the sun
Of many a summer day,
We lay
Upon his hard thin bed.
He seemed all body, such
As normally you couldn’t touch,
Reckless and rough,
One of Boss Cupid’s red-
Haired errand boys
Who couldn’t get there fast enough.
Almost like fighting...
We forgot about the noise,
But feeling turned so self-delighting
That hurry soon gave way
To give-and-take,
Till each contested, for the other’s sake,
To end up not in winning and defeat
But in a draw.
Meanwhile beyond the aureate hair
I saw
A scrap of blackboard with its groove for
chalk
Nailed to a strip of lath
That had half broken through,
The problem drafted there
Still incomplete.
After, I found out in the talk
Companion to a cigarette,
That he, turning the problem over yet
In his disorderly and ordered head,
Attended graduate school to teach
And study math,
His true
Passion cyphered in chalk beyond my
reach.
~~~ The Credits ~~~
Director: Steven Lai
Cinematographer: Ujjwal Chande
Producer: Katy Shi
Producer: Mike Gioia
Producer: Nick Theodoracatos
1st AC: Truman Hanks
Key Grip: Garrett Louis
Makeup Artist: Sophia Kenton
Production Assistant: Ian Eck
Choreography Consultant: Justin Lai
Music by Tom Frazer
Man 1 played by Tony Bruess
Man 2 played by Max Rubin
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