A Door

by Shurin, Aaron

• ISBN13: 9781584980087
• ISBN10: 1584980087
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Talisman House Pub

Summary

Best and deservedly known for the essay collection UNBOUND: A BOOK OF AIDS, Shurin also penned THE PARADISE OF FORMS: SELECTED POEMS, a Publishers Weekly Best Book last year. A book of thresholds, middles, unfinished episodes, Shurin's latest presents a set of rigorous and exacting deliriums. First- and third-person narrators are interspliced and then abandoned to purely visceral description of muscles, contours, even applause. The diction switches from archaic to pulpy noir to adult contemporary. Yet these 48 prose poems have an immediacy that holds them together perfectly.... Readers of Jorie Graham, Michael Palmer and other edgy, glossy elegists will find Shurin's modes familiar but his voice unique - Publishers Weekly.

Table of Contents

Threshold	1	(2)
Opened	3	(1)
Prelude	4	(1)
The Self	5	(4)
There Among	9	(1)
Ninth Life	10	(4)
Absolute Monarch	14	(1)
As She	15	(1)
Nocturne	16	(1)
Spring Nude	17	(2)
Riders	19	(2)
Fin de Siecle	21	(2)
Her Own	23	(7)
Overlooking the Sea Next to Mine	30	(2)
An Adolescence	32	(2)
A Door	34	(12)
The Last Head I Painted	46	(1)
Soliloquy	47	(1)
The Night Mixing	48	(1)
The Bride of Frank	49	(2)
Medium Green	51	(2)
Chances (I)	53	(2)
Chances (II)	55	(1)
Chances (III)	56	(1)
Smoke Signals	57	(1)
Slim Ceremony	58	(2)
Tell Me	60	(1)
``In a Little Stream of Ascending Air''	61	(1)
Pele's Smile	62	(1)
To John	63	(1)
To John	64	(1)
To John	65	(1)
To John	66	(1)
To John	67	(1)
Man of the House	68	(1)
Legend	69	(1)
Red Geraniums	70	(1)
Impromptu	71	(1)
Little Madrigal	72	(1)
Fade	73	(1)
No Place Like Noon	74	(1)
Subliminal Sweat	75	(3)
High Heels	78	(3)
One More Step	81	(1)
Human Immune	82	(6)
American Things	88	(1)
Jinnee	89	(2)
The Wanderer's Necklace	91