King of Shadows Adventure " --Holly Goldberg Sloan

" --Holly Goldberg Sloan

and their grandfather's invective

Tané has trained all her life to be a dragonrider

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

The stories

King of Shadows Adventure " --Holly Goldberg SloanBased 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