Some ether / Nick Flynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flynn, Nick, 1960-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Saint Paul, MN : Graywolf Press, 2000.

Summary:

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 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."

Contents:

I The Visible Woman

Bag of Mice 3

Fragment (found inside my mother) 4

The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands 5

You Ask How 6

1967 8

Trickology 9

The Visible Woman 10

And Then, And Then 11

My Mother Contemplating Her Gun 13

Ago 15

Radio Thin Air 17

Sudden 18

Emptying Town 19

II Oceanic

Angelization 23

Cartoon Physics, part 1 24

Memento Mori 26

Flood 28

Flashback 30

No Map 33

Wild with Dandelions & Roses 35

Other Meaning 38

The Robot Moves! 40

How Do You Know You're Missing Anything? 41

III Devil Theory

Seven Fragments (found inside my father) 45

Glass Slipper 47

Father Outside 48

Salt 50

Sunday 51

Two More Fragments 53

Curse 55

Man dancing with a paper cup 56

Prayer 57

Stylite (fragment #10) 58

Elsewhere, Mon Amour 59

IV Ether

Cartoon Physics, part 2 63

The cellar a machine whirring through the night 65

Her Smoke (her trick) 66

Splenectomy 68

Five Hundred Years 69

Worthless 70

Soft Radio 71

Residue 74

Peach 76

You moved me through each room 77

Fugue 78

Twenty-Pound Stone 80

Some Ether 81

God Forgotten 82.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

1555973035

OCLC:

44477502