In bold, dazzling prose, Flynn tells the story of two lives and the trajectory that led him and his father into a homeless shelter, onto Boston's streets, and finally to each other.
Winner of a "Discovery"/"The Nation" Award Winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry "Some 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 ...
"WHATEVER SHIRLEY OR NICK TELL YOU-BELIEVE THEM." - Naomi Shihab Nye How do we read a poem? What can we teach from a poem we love? How can we name what poets do in order to inform our writing, our teaching? In their staff development work with teachers, Nick Flynn and Shirley McPhillips have often encountered these and similar questions. This ...
In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the company of three individuals, each mysterious in their own way: the spectre-like Alice, ringleader ...
In this issue of "Tin House" some of today's most prominent writers examine evil in its various manifestations, from war to torture to Satanism. Featured here, among others, are works by Francine Prose, author of "A Changed Man," Nick Flynn, author of the award-winning collection of poems "Some Ether," and Chris Adrian, whose short fiction has ...
Award-winning poet Nick Flynn takes readers into the dangerous and irresistible center of the hive "I sit in a body & think of a body, I picture" "Burnens' hands, my words" "make them move. I say, plunge them into the hive, " "& his hands go in." --from "Blind Huber" Blindness does not deter Francois Huber--the eighteenth-century beekeeper--in ...
This is one of five local studies carried out under the Economic and Social Research Council's Inner City in Context research programme and offers a specific example of an economy in sudden decline to set against the experience of Glasgow, Newcastle, London, and Bristol. The volume traces the economic decline of the West Midlands from its days as ...
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Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day, Nick Flynn, Chris Lowder, Jesus Blasco (Illustrator), Sarompas (Illustrator), Pat Wright (Illustrator), Mike Dorey (Illustrator), Carlos Pino (Illustrator), Eric Bradbury (Illustrator)
One day I hope to be able to tell my daughter a story about a dark time, the dark days before she was born, and how her coming was a ray of light. 'We got lost for a while', this story will begin, 'but then we found our way.' Set just before the birth of Flynn's first child, a daughter, this impassioned memoir explores the fears and joys of ...
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