Citizen
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.36 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872865207 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The individual words of each poem collide and mingle, sometimes harmoniously and sometimes with a purposeful dissonance. 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. 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
What a delicious pleasure for readers!"—X Poetics"His writing folds the mundane and the mythic in with deep images of personal archetype. "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"…Throughout Citizen, Shurin produces kaleidoscopic visions of urban and domestic daily life, of sprawling cities and small shimmering objects. The passing moments in which the poems possessed Shurin are held fresh to the page in a dazzled string of trigger-touches. 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. This is writing that is volatile and nuanced, vivid and innovative, vital and inv