King of Shadows Adventure Body went to hide not

Body went to hide not just his true name but a second secret

and reframed divorce as an expansive form of love for her family and herself

My 1980s and Other Essays opens with a series of manifestos--or

It tells us how men do love--a stunning insight into the desires that dwell within men's psyches

A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life

King of Shadows Adventure Body went to hide notBased on the author's life as a gay man and a poet, King of Shadows is a collection of twenty one autobiographical essays that circle in and around San Francisco since the 1960s. The three longest pieces deal with Aaron Shurin's coming into poetry and gay identity via a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, his deep relationships with poets Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan, and his personal history of venturing into San Francisco gay