Black Roses

Author: Aaron Shurin

Publisher: Entre Ríos Books (2025)

A suite of poems by one of our most cherished and innovative lyric poets Aaron Shurin. This limited edition of 80 numbered and hand sewn chapbook is designed very much for collectors and admirers of Aaron Shurin's long career as a poet and mimics some of the design choices of his 1978 chapbook Toot Suite.

These ten prose poems circle around mortality, regret, and endings, but through them all is that ever present desire and lust for the fullness that is the world and our bodies, even as they slowly disappear. Shurin's approach stays maximalist, lush, caught in the beauty of sound and song.