Aaron Kunin

Late Breaking News!

Play Chthonics Reading Series hosts poet Aaron Kunin * this week! *

When: Thursday April 10, 8 PM
Where: Spartacus Books, 319 West Hastings, 2nd floor

Aaron Kunin is a poet, critic, and novelist. He is the author of Folding Ruler Star (Fence Books, 2005), a collection of small poems about shame. The Mandarin, a novel, is forthcoming in April. He lives in California and is assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College.

Kunin will also give a talk April 10 at UBC: Buchanan Tower, Room 599, 3:30

Jacqueline Waters writes of Folding Ruler Star:

“With alarmed intelligence, Folding Ruler Star exposes the violence of an expectant look and synthesizes the organic and the robotic, then unzips them just as machines unzip/concrete dividers/on the highway.”

You can read some of his poems here:
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.1/sampler.html

You can download some work here:
http://www.ubu.com/ubu/kunin_mauberley.html

You can read a review of Folding Ruler Star here:
http://jacketmagazine.com/28/gordon-r-kunin.html

You can read an interview on the “Here Comes Everybody” blog here:
http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2004/10/aaron-kunin-is-poet-critic-and.html