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Aaron Shurin

Auteur de The night sun : [poems]

24+ oeuvres 156 utilisateurs 3 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Aaron Shurin is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Citizen (2011), King of Shadows (2008), and Involuntary Lyrics (2005). His honors and awards include the Gertrude Stein Award, the Bay afficher plus Area Art Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. afficher moins

Œuvres de Aaron Shurin

The night sun : [poems] (1976) 16 exemplaires
King of Shadows (2008) 15 exemplaires
Unbound: A Book of AIDS (1997) 13 exemplaires
Citizen (2011) 13 exemplaires
Involuntary Lyrics (2005) 12 exemplaires
Giving up the ghost (1980) 10 exemplaires
A's Dream (1989) 8 exemplaires
The Graces (Writing) (1983) 8 exemplaires
Flowers & Sky: Two Talks (2017) 4 exemplaires
The Blue Absolute (2020) 4 exemplaires
A Door (2000) 4 exemplaires
Elsewhere 3 exemplaires
Narrativity (20 Pages) (1990) 2 exemplaires
Raddle Moon 19 (Vol 10 NO 1) (2001) 1 exemplaire
Woman on Fire (SC) (1975) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (1836) — Contributeur — 179 exemplaires
The Son of the Male Muse: New Gay Poetry (1983) — Contributeur — 47 exemplaires
Angels of the Lyre: A Gay Poetry Anthology (1975) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
ACTS 1 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Dark Ages Clasp the Daisy Root #4 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1947
Sexe
male

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Critiques

Some wonderful imagery and clever turns of phrase get bogged down by complex atonality and what often seems like random word generation.
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albertgoldfain | Jun 30, 2018 |
A guide to reading "The Iliad" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.
 
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BlessedHopeAcademy | Apr 30, 2011 |
King of Shadows is a collection of twenty-one autobiographical essays chronicling the author's gay life and life as a poet in San Francisco since the 1960s. In the title essay, Shurin describes his coming into poetry and gay identity via a high-school production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Other essays tell of his deep relationships with poets Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan, and the influence of the sexual politics of the '70s. In “The Bars of Heaven and Hell,” we are given a personal history of venturing into gay bars in pre-Stonewall San Francisco. Written in a lyrical, literary, yet highly personal style, Shurin’s intelligent and insightful essays circle in and around issues of identity and sensibility, and how our interior and public lives are shaped by them.

Praise for King of Shadows:

"There are lots of reasons you want to read this book. Among them: because there are quite a lot of astonishingly apt and incisive and occasionally uproarious descriptions of the subtleties of everyday life; because many of the sentences are also as perfect as English allows; because it's a wonderfully wry and roundabout guide to gay and literary San Francisco; because you actually do need to know how a person is like a flower and a flower like a person; because it also dowses for and find unexpected pleasures that we particularly need at this moment in time." – Rebecca Solnit, author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost, River of Shadows, and Hope in the Dark.
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CityLightsBooks | Sep 11, 2008 |

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Œuvres
24
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5
Membres
156
Popularité
#134,405
Évaluation
4.1
Critiques
3
ISBN
29

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