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Aaron Shurin, King of Shadows
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Thursday June 5, 2008 (7pm)
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Note: Shurin also reads at Moe's Books in Berkeley on Wednesday, June 18 (9pm), and at Books Inc. in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 24 (7:30pm).
Aaron Shurin is an elder statesmen of SF poetry, chronicling the vicissitudes of gay life in dense lyrical entanglements that flit between public and private registers. Having written a deeply moving memoir (Unbound: A Book of AIDS, 1997), the USF professor is no stranger to prose. His newest collection of autobiographical essays, King of Shadows, fills in much of what happened before and after the plague years: his high-school awakening to poetry and homosexuality via Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; his awkward forays into San Francisco's pre-Stonewall bar culture; and his relationships with poetry mentors Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov.
