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The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (Poets on Poetry)
Aaron Shurin
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Description for The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (Poets on Poetry)
Hardcover. In this collection, Aaron Shurin has brought together thirty years' worth of his provocative essays. Fuelled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry, Shurin's essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry's possibilities. Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
In The Skin of Meaning, Aaron Shurin has collected thirty years’ worth of his provocative essays. Fueled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry, Shurin’s essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry’s possibilities. Whether he’s examining innovations in poetic form, analyzing the gestures of drag queens, or dissecting the language of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Poets on Poetry
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472072965
SKU
V9780472072965
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Ref
99-15
About Aaron Shurin
Aaron Shurin is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Citizen (2011), King of Shadows (2008), and Involuntary Lyrics (2005). His honors and awards include the Gertrude Stein Award, the Bay Area Art Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for ... Read more
Reviews for The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (Poets on Poetry)
Reading these essays I’m struck by how fully Aaron Shurin combines a personal history with a prophetic, conceptual, strongly non-personal vision. With masterful intelligence he has presided over, partaken of, and influenced through his analysis avant-gardes as varied as Language Poetry, New Narrative, and conceptual or procedural poetry, on each of which he has written near-definitive texts. His writing about ... Read more