Paradise of Forms : New and Selected Poems

by Shurin, Aaron

• ISBN13: 9781883689810
• ISBN10: 1883689813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. swallowed on purpose to make the taker have bliss, all the world are nothing like lips hair, cheeks. in the breath hear speak faith, make love groan swear my judgment in deeds (from Artery). Selections from GIVING UP THE GHOST, A'S DREAM, THE GRACES, A POSSIBLE LIFE, CODEX, INTO DISTANCES, A DOOR, FOUR VIEWS OUT OF PARIS and INVOLUNTARY LYRICS, as well as previously uncollected pieces. THE PARADISE OF FORMS is a beautiful book and an excellent selection of Shurin's work. A poetry of lyric complexity, determined in its exploration of the 'personal' as a territory of multiple voices and multiple selves - Michael Palmer. For three decades Aaron Shurin's poetry has been at the forefront of innovative American writing. An essayist and teacher as well as a poet, his work has appeared in over a dozen U.S. and international anthologies, and he has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. Shurin teaches creative writing at San Francisco State U

Table of Contents

Envoy	1	(2)
GIVING UP THE GHOST	3	(12)
90% Humidity, 10% Lust	5	(1)
Raving #1	6	(1)
Raving #8, O Dear	7	(1)
Raving #9	8	(1)
Raving #13, All Hallow's Eve	9	(1)
Raving #25, Vernal Equinox	10	(1)
Take Off	11	(1)
Mister Harp	12	(1)
Telegrammeton	13	(2)
THE GRACES	15	(18)
from Parallel Views	17	(5)
from Multiple Heart	22	(7)
from The Graces	29	(4)
A POSSIBLE LIFE	33	(8)
CODEX	41	(10)
from Codex	43	(8)
A'S DREAM	51	(20)
from Artery	53	(3)
from City of Men	56	(5)
A's Dream	61	(5)
Material's Daughter	66	(2)
Sphere	68	(1)
Reaching Particle	69	(1)
Saturated	70	(1)
INTO DISTANCES	71	(24)
Breath	73	(1)
A Union	74	(2)
The Third Floor	76	(2)
Sailed	78	(1)
One Evening	79	(1)
Inscription	80	(2)
Spinner	82	(1)
The Wheel	83	(10)
In the Mist	93	(2)
A DOOR	95	(22)
Threshold	97	(2)
Prelude	99	(1)
Ninth Life	100	(4)
Absolute Monarch	104	(1)
``In a Little Stream of Ascending Air''	105	(1)
To John	106	(1)
To John	107	(1)
Red Geraniums	108	(1)
Impromptu	109	(1)
No Place Like Noon	110	(1)
Human Immune	111	(6)
FOUR VIEWS OUT OF PARIS	117	(6)
A Few Forward	119	(1)
Still Life	120	(1)
Follow	121	(1)
The Ingredients	122	(1)
INVOLUNTARY LYRICS	123	(2)
I, III, XIV, XVIII, XXXIX, LI, LIV, LIX, LXXI, LXXIII, XCI, CII, CXI, CXIV, CXXII, CXXV, CXXXVIII, CLIV	125