King of Shadows Adventure and reframed divorce as an

and reframed divorce as an expansive form of love for her family and herself

and their grandfather's invective

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

never will this cause their senses to remain forever reversed

King of Shadows Adventure and reframed divorce as anBased 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