The blue absolute / Aaron Shurin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shurin, Aaron, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prose poems, American--21st century.

Prose poems, American.

Gay men--Poetry.

Gay men.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Poetry.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Genre:

Poetry.

Prose poems.

Physical Description:

89 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Nightboat Books, [2020]

Summary:

"The Blue Absolute's prose poems are hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action--urban and pastoral, highly figured and fragmented, grieving and dreaming--each poem a compressed but fluid zone of almost psychedelic intensity. The book closes with "Shiver," an American epic, at once a lament for and vision of a great city on the edge: San Francisco past, present, and future"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

I Skin of Clouds

The Emissary p. 3

What Sway p. 4

The Lesson p. 5

He Stood p. 6

Once p. 7

Tonight p. 8

I Could See p. 9

The Shifting p. 10

Tilt p. 11

The Exchange p. 12

Omit The Mouth p. 13

The Edge p. 14

We Are Some Place p. 15

The Room p. 16

In The Interval p. 17

Submerged p. 18

Clear p. 19

In The Long Grass p. 20

The Part Unseen p. 21

Made A Song p. 22

II To Make the Air There

Circumference p. 25

The Fold p. 26

As The Wind Blows p. 27

The Rhythm p. 28

Here Is The Day p. 29

The Opening p. 30

Realms p. 31

Reverie p. 32

The Majestic p. 33

In A Corner Cafe p. 34

Reconstructed p. 35

Duet p. 37

In August p. 38

The Memorial p. 39

Still Walking p. 40

The Thing I Was p. 41

Elegy p. 42

Song p. 43

III The Inscrutable Edge of Flight

A Measure Of Light p. 47

Turning p. 48

The Formalist p. 49

The Frame p. 50

The Priviledge p. 51

The View From Here:

Sky Room p. 52

Cartographer p. 53

Song And Damon p. 54

Sphere p. 55

The Pursuit p. 57

The Missing p. 58

Go Now p. 59

Proportion p. 60

Look p. 61

Believer p. 62

The Spin p. 63

On The Steps p. 64

Air And Sky p. 65

IV Shiver

Shiver p. 69.

ISBN:

9781643620169

1643620169

OCLC:

1099569168

Publisher Number:

99984218575