9 Ergebnisse.

*The book was formed during the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. In a short and rapid space of time the author witnessed the death of many close friends. Most of the information about the epidemic was statistical, but Shurin acknowledges the transformational beauty some friends achieved in death. The fearlessness, the acuity, the imagination were all things Shurin wants the world to hear about, given the walls around the gay commu...

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Urban and pastoral, highly figured and fragmented, grieving and dreaming, the prose poems of The Blue Absolute set people moving and thinking amidst a flurry of dashes, dots, perspective shifts, and the fragmented action of San Francisco, the great city on the edge.

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Shurin balances the trace memory of poetic history against the charged physicality of contemporary event.

In this collection, Aaron Shurin has brought together thirty years' worth of his provocative essays. Fuelled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry, Shurin's essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry's possibilities.

In this collection, Aaron Shurin has brought together thirty years' worth of his provocative essays. Fuelled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry, Shurin's essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry's possibilities.

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A candid and rich account of gay life as a poet in San Francisco since the 1960s.