King of Shadows Adventure and their grandfather's invective

and their grandfather's invective

The stories

they just had too much of the stuff

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

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

King of Shadows Adventure and their grandfather's invectiveBased 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