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Aaron Shurin

Teoksen The night sun : [poems] tekijä

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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 näytä lisää Area Art Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. näytä vähemmän

Tekijän teokset

The night sun : [poems] (1976) 16 kappaletta
King of Shadows (2008) 15 kappaletta
Unbound: A Book of AIDS (1997) 13 kappaletta
Citizen (2011) 13 kappaletta
Involuntary Lyrics (2005) 12 kappaletta
Giving up the ghost (1980) 10 kappaletta
A's Dream (1989) 8 kappaletta
The Graces (Writing) (1983) 8 kappaletta
Flowers & Sky: Two Talks (2017) 4 kappaletta
The Blue Absolute (2020) 4 kappaletta

Associated Works

Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (1836) — Avustaja — 179 kappaletta
The Son of the Male Muse: New Gay Poetry (1983) — Avustaja — 47 kappaletta
Angels of the Lyre: A Gay Poetry Anthology (1975) — Avustaja — 38 kappaletta
ACTS 1 — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Dark Ages Clasp the Daisy Root #4 — Avustaja — 1 kappale

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Syntymäaika
1947
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male

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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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