Aaron Shurin
Professor
The author of eleven books of poetry and prose, Aaron Shurin
is a recipient of California Arts Council Literary Fellowships in
poetry (1989, 2002), and fellowships from the NEA and San Francisco
Arts Commission in creative nonfiction (1995, 2005). 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."
Education
M.A. in Poetics, New College of California.
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