Elixir

""Across the decades, the enduring thread in Shurin’s poetry has been an unwavering attention to beauty—and to the act of creating it. Through the poem, the world is made anew."" —Tiff Dressen, Los Angeles Review of Books “Once again, Aaron Shurin proves to be one of America’s greatest poets.” —Craig Santos Perez “[A] conversion to the heart of what speech and song mean to be that is the true voice Poetry waits for.” —Robert Duncan “This is what an active poetry can do, then, make something in mind be there—not just talked about and forgotten.”  —Robert Creeley “[Shurin’s] has never been a poetry of uncomplicated self-expression, but a poetry that seeks both to embody and to incite transformation . . . An important addition to and revision of the canon of American poetry.” —Reginald Shepherd “What we have here is a bounty of controlled ripeness, elastic and kinetic . . . These poems . . . pull and draw, in an almost chemical/medicinal way, toward a more expansive understanding of how language translates seeing and feeling.” —Barbara Berman ""An utter gem . . . Like loose threads hanging on the backside of a tapestry, Shurin’s poems are interconnected and constellated."" —Timothy Liu, Plume