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*The book was formed during the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. In a short and rapid space of time the author witnessed the death of many close friends. Most of the information about the epidemic was statistical, but Shurin acknowledges the transformational beauty some friends achieved in death. The fearlessness, the acuity, the imagination were all things Shurin wants the world to hear about, given the walls around the gay community that kept its suffering and transcendence blocked to the general public *Author is a revered member of San Francisco poetry community and has won many awards including being a finalist for the California Book Award, twice winning the Gertrude Stein award in innovative writing, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Memoir/Autobiography, a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award, and twice receiving the California Arts Council Literary Fellowship. *Author is the Director and Professor at the University of San Francisco MFA in writing and curates the Readings at Lone Mountain and is a co-curator of The Poetry Center reading Series at the University of San Francisco *Author holds a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley and a MA in Poetics from the New College of California