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Some Ether: Poems | Nick Flynn

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Winner of a "Discovery"/The Nation AwardWinner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for PoetrySome Ether is one of the more remarkable debut collections of poetry to appear in America in recent memory. As Mark Doty has noted, "these poems are more than testimony; in lyrics of ringing clarity and strange precision, Flynn conjures a will to survive, the buoyant motion toward love which is sometimes all that saves us. Some Ether resonates in the imagination long after the final poem; this is a startling, moving debut."

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Some Ether: Poems | Nick Flynn

It's like watching surgery. If you want life and death, it's here. If you want pain and suffering, it's here. Flynn's a fine poet. There are some great images. He has this really soft touch that just doesn't prepare me for his cuts - the drugs, the sex. It feels like watching accidents on the tv news. I like my poetry a little more analytical. I found about half these poems to be genuinely memorable images. The rest of them just made me wince.

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Jel

Some Ether: Poems | Nick Flynn

Some Nick Flynn in exchange for carpal tunnel.

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