Aaron Shurin je autorom pätnástich kníh a menších zbierok, ktorého dielo sa ponára do hlbokých ľudských tém a formálnych experimentov. Jeho poézia aj próza sú známe intelektuálnou hĺbkou a jedinečným štýlom. Shurin sa zameriava na skúmanie medziľudských vzťahov a spoločenských otázok prostredníctvom inovatívnych literárnych postupov. Jeho tvorba obohatila mnohé národné aj medzinárodné antológie a odráža jeho významné postavenie v súčasnej americkej literatúre.
Urban and pastoral, highly figured and fragmented, grieving and dreaming, the prose poems of The Blue Absolute set people moving and thinking amidst a flurry of dashes, dots, perspective shifts, and the fragmented action of San Francisco, the great city on the edge.
A moving collection of essays that bring poetic insight to the sheer facts of the AIDS epidemic, in an attempt to make meaning from suffering. Unbound is a poet's intimate account of life in San Francisco in the 80s and 90s during the apex of the AIDS epidemic. In his search for meaning, Shurin dives down into the broken-hearted, revelatory core of the social landscape and the lives of friends who both succumbed to and transcended the disease. Twenty-five years after its initial publication, Unbound continues the search, resonating inescapably with the perils of our new pandemic. Shurin brings to life a familiar world tensed on the threshold of living, balanced precariously on the edges of love and friendship, family and community, rapture and mourning.