<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Citizen</TitleText>

City Lights Books onix@onixsuite.com 20130217 eng

GCDS-9780872865204 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100346880 02 0872865207 03 9780872865204 15 9780872865204 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Citizen</TitleText> 1 A01 Shurin, Aaron Aaron Shurin AARON SHURIN is the author of eleven books, including the poetry collections Involuntary Lyrics (Omnidawn, 2005) and The Paradise of Forms (Talisman House, 1999), a Publishers Weekly Best Book; the prose collection Unbound: A Book of AIDS (Sun & Moon, 1997); and most recently, King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays, published by City Lights Books in 2008. His work has appeared in over thirty national and international anthologies, and been translated into seven languagesShurin's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Gerbode Foundation. He is a Professor in the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. 01 eng 88 20 Aaron Shurin; contemporary poetry; poetry; prose poetry 01 Widely acclaimed for his lyrical language and innovative verse, Aaron Shurin brings the prose poem into new richness and complexity in Citizen. Through shape-shifting sentences and sensuous imagery he explores the nuances of civic and domestic life, the twists and turns of desire, and the mysterious shimmer of objects. Traveling across the borders of cities and the boundaries of form, he crafts a dazzling vision of daily life as a citizen of the imagination.Praise for Citizen:"Aaron Shurin writes piercingly lovely poetry that's multidimensional and insists on being read aloud, though its eloquence is equally powerful on the page without sound, with that enclosed, attentive ear that can turn poetry into meditation...Shurin's name has been linked with masters like Jorie Graham and Michael Palmer. But his songs have a grace that's his alone."-The Rumpus"Aaron Shurin, in Citizen, deliriously revels in sensual images, sly wisdom and rumbling pauses. Shurin's brilliant book-his eleventh-suggests how a lengthy career allows a poet the room to roam, stretching the limits of what his poems can be."-K.M. Soehnlein, author of Robin and RubyPraise for Aaron Shurin's poetry:"The Paradise of Forms represents the work of one of the most stunningly original and undercelebrated poets of a generation that includes Rita Dove, Michael Palmer, Jorie Graham and Carolyn Forché. Aaron Shurin's 20-year accumulation of writing does much more than secure his lasting value in contemporary American poetry. . . [There's] a heroic reinvention of language in a world where it's too often exhausted . . . in a book that shows the price of vision and survival in America."-San Francisco Chronicle"I love the edges and handholds of sound ["Involuntary Lyrics"] provide, the quick shifts of meaning, the deft 'sleight of mind' echoes of everything from Shakespeare on out. This is what an active poetry can do, then, make something in mind be there-not just talked about and forgotten."-Robert Creeley 02 In Citizen, Shurin has collected vibrant new poems that are, by turns, romantic, visceral, edgy, and unabashedly beautiful. 08 "Aaron Shurin writes piercingly lovely poetry that's multidimensional and insists on being read aloud, though its eloquence is equally powerful on the page without sound, with that enclosed, attentive ear that can turn poetry into meditation... Shurin's name has been linked with masters like Jorie Graham and Michael Palmer. But his songs have a grace that's his alone."-Barbara Berman, The Rumpus The Rumpus 08 "Citizen's lyrics are a fine mixture of the crisp and the luxurious if such a combination is possible. With only two or three exceptions, no poem is more than a page long. Things go quickly. The poet gets in, does his work, and gets out. However within that space is a carnival of language, and the reader loves the short wild ride, in part because Shurin revels in the glory of words. He knows they can take us places and entertain, and he allows them to (read: makes them) do both... the whole book, is an embrace of the fantastic."-Dean Rader, The Huffington Post The Huffington Post 08 "In Citizen, Shurin seamlessly tackles many aspects of life. Often in a single poem he weaves themes of love, class, time, poetry, and even good cheese while he simultaneously unravels them with concocted flashes of specificity... Shurin conjures a Steinian grammar and Shakespearean delicacy, but applies his unique spontaneity and logic to create a voice that is solely his."-Maggie Heaps Eleven Eleven Literary Journal 08 "Lyrical and sketched with lush strokes of purpose and panache, these densely evocative paragraphs demonstrate a wide range of moods and desires. It would be difficult to find a piece in Shurin's tightly constructed bounty that doesn't reiterate the beauty of his cerebrally-interpreted text, but there are indeed standouts and, conversely, some pages that could possibly rise above the heads of more inexperienced poetry fanatics." The Bay Area Reporter 08 "The author of some dozen collections of poetry, there is a subtlety to Shurin's work, a series of invisible turns that take time to sink in, and a cadence that appears straightforward but is actually understated, twirling tricks around in air."-Rob McClennan Rob McClennan's Blog 08 "...Throughout Citizen, Shurin produces kaleidoscopic visions of urban and domestic daily life, of sprawling cities and small shimmering objects. Most importantly, he takes the prose poem 'to where the beautiful nights dance like bears.' Citizen promises a journey to a space somewhere in between now and the future, which readers are sure to find both fascinating and familiar."-Melissa Hohl Small Press Distribution 08 "These new, 60-plus, mostly one-page are bursts of lyric intensity and sensual imagery with at times hints of personal passions and sexual moments - '...A pulley system raising chin or ass - yanked in - grommet eyes - your grin flushed out as your hand clutches....' Each of the solid texts is saturated with words, a rush and a tumble of exciting and excitable but at all times controlled excess. This is writing that is volatile and nuanced, vivid and innovative, vital and inviting."--Richard Labonte Q Syndicate 08 "The best pieces, like 'The Stillness,' a monologue by a character who dreams of being a sailor, are moving meditations on human desire; the fluid sentence structure beautifully captures a man's sense of longing. Shurin's strangely evocative imagery is also a delight to unpack, as in this intriguing line from 'Cool Dust': 'A heave of afternoon light pulls a tulip from the turf.'" San Francisco Magazine 08 "Shurin's ear is finely attuned to prosodic potential; each prose poem in Citizen delights in probing the dangerous acrobatic potential of working on the prosodic wire above the wide space of the prose poem.  What a delicious pleasure for readers!" X Poetics 08 "His writing folds the mundane and the mythic in with deep images of personal archetype. The passing moments in which the poems possessed Shurin are held fresh to the page in a dazzled string of trigger-touches. They hint of lingering spiral passages, personal journeys, which lie just below such occasions." The Critical Flame 08 ""The voice-playful, charming, and self-deprecating-creates an engaging persona...These prose poems certainly deserve praise for their rich musicality. They almost overflow with effervescent lyricism...This citizen lives and thrives on a current of lilting language that swarms and swims through him." -John Bradley Rain Taxi 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100346880/extras/CitizenExcerptCL.pdf 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100346880/images/87286100346880L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100346880/images/87286100346880S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100346880 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20120101 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20120101 01 02 10.95 USD