The Paradise of Forms: Selected Poems - Softcover

Shurin, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883689813 ISBN 13: 9781883689810

Publisher: Talisman House Pub, 1999

Synopsis

Poetry. swallowed on purpose to make the taker have bliss, all the world are nothing like lips hair, cheeks. in the breath hear speak faith, make love groan swear my judgment in deeds (from Artery). Selections from GIVING UP THE GHOST, A'S DREAM, THE GRACES, A POSSIBLE LIFE, CODEX, INTO DISTANCES, A DOOR, FOUR VIEWS OUT OF PARIS and INVOLUNTARY LYRICS, as well as previously uncollected pieces. THE PARADISE OF FORMS is a beautiful book and an excellent selection of Shurin's work. A poetry of lyric complexity, determined in its exploration of the `personal' as a territory of multiple voices and multiple selves - Michael Palmer. For three decades Aaron Shurin's poetry has been at the forefront of innovative American writing. An essayist and teacher as well as a poet, his work has appeared in over a dozen U.S. and international anthologies, and he has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. Shurin teaches creative writing at San Francisco State U

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About the Author

Aaron Shurin is an American poet, essayist, and educator. Since 1999, he has co-directed the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. Aaron Shurin received his M.A. in Poetics from New College of California, where he studied under poet Robert Duncan. He is a recipient of California Arts Council Literary Fellowships in poetry (1989, 2002), and a NEA fellowship in creative nonfiction (1995). Shurin is the former Associate Director of the Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University. He is the author of over ten books, including A'S DREAM (O Books, 1999), NARRATIVITY (Sun & Moon Press, 1990), Unbound: A Book of AIDS (Sun & Moon Press, 1997), THE PARADISE OF FORMS: SELECTED POEMS (Talisman House, Publishers, 1999), A DOOR (Talisman House, Publishers, 2000), INVOLUNTARY LYRICS (Omnidawn Publishing, 2005), KING OF SHADOWS (City Lights Publishers, 2008) and CITIZEN (City Lights Publishers, 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Talisman House Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1883689813
• ISBN 13: 9781883689810
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136