My Feelings: Poems
A daring and intimate new book by the poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, “a champion of contemporary American poetry” (Newpages). . . the take from his bank jobs, all of it will come to me, if I can just get him to draw mea map, if I can find the tree, if I can find the shovel. And the house, the...
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A daring and intimate new book by the poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, “a champion of contemporary American poetry” (Newpages). . . the take from his bank jobs, all of it will come to me, if I can just get him to draw mea map, if I can find the tree, if I can find the shovel. And the house, the mansion hegrew up in, soon a lawyer will pass a key across a walnut desk, but even thislawyer will not be able to tell me where this mansion is. —from “Kafka” In My Feelings, Nick Flynn makes no claims on anyone else’s. These poems inhabit a continually shifting sense of selfhood, in the attempt to contain quicksilver realms of emotional energy—from grief and panic to gratitude and understanding.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781555977108 (1555977103)
ASIN: 1555977103
Publish date: 2015-06-02
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Loved Flynn's memoir, but these poems are flabby, lifeless, and self-absorbed.