Unbound

Aaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, most recently The Blue Absolute (Nightboat, 2020), Flowers & Sky: Two Talks (Entre Rios Books, 2017), and The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (University of Michigan Press, 2015). His work has appeared in over forty national and international anthologies, from The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry to Italy's Nuova Poesia Americana: San Francisco, and has been supported by grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, The California Arts Council, The San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Gerbode Foundation. A pioneer in both LGBTQ studies and innovative verse, Shurin was a member of the original Good Gay Poets collective in Boston, and later the first graduate of the storied Poetics Program at New College of California. He has written numerous critical essays about poetic theory and compositional practice, as well as personal narratives on sexual identity, gender fluidity, and the AIDS epidemic. A longtime educator, he's the former director and currently Professor Emeritus for the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.

Preface: Rebinding Unbound A Re-introduction to Unbound: A Book of AIDS 
Full Circle: Postscript to “City of Men” 
Notes from Under 
The Depositories 
Strips and Streamers 
Further Under 
Orphée: The Kiss of Death 
Turn Around: A Solo Dance with Voice 
A Lull in the Void: Postscript to “Turn Around” 
from The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks 
Human Immune 
My Memorial 
Some Haunting 
Inscribing AIDS: A Reflexive Poetics 
Shifting Paradise 
July 
Generation 
The Dance that We Made 
Appendices: 
Preface: Binding Unbound, preface to the 2nd edition
Preface to Unbound: A Book of AIDS, preface to the Original edition 
Notes