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Biography
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Aaron Shurin
Associate Professor and Director: Writing, MFA
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Aaron Shurin received his M.A. in Poetics from New College of California. He is a recipient of California Arts Council Literary Fellowships in poetry (1989, 2002), and a NEA fellowship in creative nonfiction (1995). He is the author of poetry: Into Distances (1993), The Paradise of Forms: Selected Poems (1999), A Door (2000) and Involuntary Lyrics (2005), and prose: Unbound: A Book of AIDS (1997).
He has taught extensively in the fields of American poetry and poetics, contemporary and classical prosody, improvisational techniques in composition, and the personal essay. His own work is framed by the innovative traditions in lyric poetry as they extend the central purpose of the Romantic Imagination: to attend the world in its particularities, body and soul. "Poetry remains for me an act of investigation, by which the imagination makes itself visible in a real world - and through which the inhabitants of that realer world become dimensional."
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-5357
Fax: (415) 422-6996
Email: shurin@usfca.edu
Office: Lone Mountain, Main Building, 340
Office Hours: By appointment.
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