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Elixir: New and Selected Poems
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ISBN10: 1643622765
ISBN13: 9781643622767
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: Jun 17 2025
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781643622767
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: Jun 17 2025
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A new and selected collection of poetry from a legend of San Francisco's literary community.
From the early days of Gay Liberation to innovations in contemporary verse, Aaron Shurin's has been a singular voice in American poetry. His work has unwaveringly maintained lyric presence while at the same time utilizing narrative tensions and structural constraints--especially in his chosen form of the prose poem. His queer eye has never wavered--yet his has never been a poetry confined to one audience, one mode. Elixir draws from a dozen books over a period of fifty years, presciently investigating issues of gender, homosexuality, identity, and subjectivity, via ecstatic diction, luxurious sound-scape, creative grammar, and radical form.
From the early days of Gay Liberation to innovations in contemporary verse, Aaron Shurin's has been a singular voice in American poetry. His work has unwaveringly maintained lyric presence while at the same time utilizing narrative tensions and structural constraints--especially in his chosen form of the prose poem. His queer eye has never wavered--yet his has never been a poetry confined to one audience, one mode. Elixir draws from a dozen books over a period of fifty years, presciently investigating issues of gender, homosexuality, identity, and subjectivity, via ecstatic diction, luxurious sound-scape, creative grammar, and radical form.
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