Aaron Shurin è un autore la cui opera si addentra in profondi temi umani e sperimentazioni formali. La sua poesia e prosa sono note per la profondità intellettuale e lo stile distintivo. Shurin si concentra sull'esplorazione delle relazioni interpersonali e delle questioni sociali attraverso approcci letterari innovativi. I suoi scritti hanno arricchito numerose antologie nazionali e internazionali, riflettendo il suo posto significativo nella letteratura americana contemporanea.
Urban and pastoral, highly figured and fragmented, grieving and dreaming, the prose poems of The Blue Absolute set people moving and thinking amidst a flurry of dashes, dots, perspective shifts, and the fragmented action of San Francisco, the great city on the edge.
A moving collection of essays that bring poetic insight to the sheer facts of the AIDS epidemic, in an attempt to make meaning from suffering. Unbound is a poet's intimate account of life in San Francisco in the 80s and 90s during the apex of the AIDS epidemic. In his search for meaning, Shurin dives down into the broken-hearted, revelatory core of the social landscape and the lives of friends who both succumbed to and transcended the disease. Twenty-five years after its initial publication, Unbound continues the search, resonating inescapably with the perils of our new pandemic. Shurin brings to life a familiar world tensed on the threshold of living, balanced precariously on the edges of love and friendship, family and community, rapture and mourning.