Elixir: New and Selected Poems

By Aaron Shurin

A new and selected collection of poetry from a legend of San Francisco's literary community.

From the early days of Gay Liberation to innovations in contemporary verse, Aaron Shurin's has been a singular voice in American poetry. His work has unwaveringly maintained lyric presence while at the same time utilizing narrative tensions and structural constraints--especially in his chosen form of the prose poem. His queer eye has never wavered--yet his has never been a poetry confined to one audience, one mode. Elixir draws from a dozen books over a period of fifty years, presciently investigating issues of gender, homosexuality, identity, and subjectivity, via ecstatic diction, luxurious sound-scape, creative grammar, and radical form.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643622765
• ISBN13: 9781643622767
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"