King of Shadows - by Aaron Shurin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A candid and rich account of gay life as a poet in San Francisco since the 1960s.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Based on the author's life as a gay man and a poet, <i>King of Shadows</i> is a collection of twenty-one autobiographical essays that circle in and around San Francisco since the 1960s. The three longest pieces deal with Aaron Shurin's coming into poetry and gay identity via a high school production of <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>, his deep relationships with poets Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan, and his personal history of venturing into San Francisco gay bars, starting in 1965 and ending just before Stonewall.</p><p><b>Aaron Shurin</b> is the author of fifteen books, including <i>Involuntary Lyrics</i> and <i>The Paradise of Forms</i>, named a <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Best Book of the Year.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><strong>Praise for <em>The Paradise of Forms: Selected Poems</em></strong>: </p><p> . . . it delightfully explores a melange of containers, frames, and matrices through which a poem can come to life.--Publishers Weekly</p><p>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 <em>A Field Guide to Getting Lost, River of Shadows </em>and <em>Hope in the Dark</em></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Aaron Shurin has published eight books of poetry and one of essays. His selected poems, <em>Paradise of Forms</em>, was chosen as one of <em>Publishers Weekly</em>'s Best Books of 1999. His essays on AIDS, <em>Unbound</em>, went through several printings with Sun & Moon Press. Since 1999 he has directed the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.</p>
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