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"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 AIDS, Shurin's writing is evocative, his investigations rigorous, and his point of view unabashed. Shurin's poetic practice braids together many strands in contemporary, innovative writing, from the San Francisco Renaissance to Language Poetry and New Narrative Writing. His mentorships with Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov; his studies at New College of California, where he was the first graduate of the epochal Poetics Program; and his years of teaching writing provide a rich background for these essays. San Francisco provides the color and context for formulations of "prosody now," propositions of textual collage, and theories of radical narrativity, while the heart of the book searches through the dire years of the AIDS epidemic to uncover poetic meaning, and "make the heroes heroes." " -- Publisher's description
Like a book -- Narrativity -- A thing unto myself: the unRomantic self and gender in the third person -- The complexities of measure -- The irruptive text -- Noumenous men: on David Melnick's Men in Aida -- Involuntary Lyrics: a foot note -- Prosody now -- Note to a student -- Active form: toward a gay/lesbian poetics -- Writing into the twenty-first century -- Queerly: AIDS and the queer imagination -- Lo how I vanyshhe: afterword to Codex -- Binding Unbound: an introduction to unbound: A Book of AIDS -- From Unbound: A Book of AIDS : Preface ; Full circle: postscript to "City of Men" ; Notes from under ; further under ; Orphée: the kiss of death ; A lull in the void; a postscript to "Turn Around" ; My memorial ; Some haunting ; Inscribing AIDS: a reflexive poetics ; Shifting paradise ; July ; Generation -- After Genet: Jean Genet 1910-1986 -- Smoke -- Synching in tongues -- At the pulling of invisible strings: On John Weiner's "A Poem for Trapped Things" -- The gaze of Julie -- Real questions: On Robert Glück's Elements of a Coffee Service -- Reclaiming Eden: on Robert Duncan's Fast Foutu -- A restoration: on Beverly Dahlen's The Egyptian Poems -- Reading/writing: an introduction to Derivations -- Among way: On Leslie Scalapino's way -- The people's P***K: a dialectical tale -- Inhabiting both sides: Aaron Shurin's correspondences.