Read Ron Silliman on Aaron Shurin’s new collection of poems, Involuntary Lyrics, just out from Omnidawn Press:

Do you know that experience where you sit down with a new CD & understand within its first few bars that your whole idea of music needs to change? That was how I felt reading this first poem, entitled “I” – the numeral, not the letter – the first of 80-some sonnets gathered together in Aaron Shurin’s brand new Involuntary Lyrics…

cover story: The cover features a photo of a porcelain bust by Chinese artist Ah Xian, whose intriguing life-sized sculptures are overlaid with with collage.