* In the American innovative tradition in poetry, Shurin's work will appeal to fans of Michael Palmer, Lyn Hejinian, Alice Notley, and Nathaniel Mackey. * Shurin's book The Paradise of Forms: Selected Poems (1999), was chosen by PW as one of their Best Books of the Year. He knows they can take us places and entertain, and he allows them to (read: makes them) do both … the whole book, is an embrace of the fantastic."-Dean Rader, The Huffington Post "Lyrical and sketched with lush strokes of purpose and panache, these densely evocative paragraphs demonstrate a wide range of moods and desires. It would be difficult to find a piece in Shurin's tightly constructed bounty that doesn't reiterate the beauty of his cerebrally-interpreted text, but there are indeed standouts and, conversely, some pages that could possibly rise above the heads of more inexperienced poetry fanatics."-The Bay Area Reporter "These agile prose poems by Aaron Shurin wander and leap sensually from bed, to lover, to home, to natural wonders, both personal and universal. The individual words of each poem collide and mingle, sometimes harmoniously and sometimes with a purposeful dissonance. Citizen is a lyrical and affirming look into the vibrant life of San Francisco and into the mind of one of its most accomplished poets."-World Literature Today "In Citizen, Shurin seamlessly tackles many aspects of life. Often in a single poem he weaves themes of love, class, time, poetry, and even good cheese while he simultaneously unravels them with concocted flashes of specificity … Shurin conjures a Steinian grammar and Shakespearean delicacy, but applies his unique spontaneity and logic to create a voice that is solely his."-Maggie Heaps, Eleven Eleven Literary Journal Aaron Shurin is the author of over ten books, most recently King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays. He lives and works in San Francisco, California.