The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands: Poems

Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Graywolf Press, 2011

1555975747 / 9781555975746

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New poetry by the acclaimed writer Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the Bomb electrocution, no--the boy stood in the hot-hot room stammering I did stammering I did stammering I did stammering I did stammering everything you say I did I did. --from "Fire" The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands is Nick Flynn's first new poetry collection in nearly a decade. What begins as a meditation on love and the body soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media reports, childhood memories, testimonies from Abu Ghraib detainees, passages from documentary films, overheard conversations, and scraps of poems and song, only to reassemble with a gathering sonic force. It's as if all the noise that fills our days were a storm, yet at the center is a quiet place, but to get there you must first pass through the storm, with eyes wide open, singing. Each poem becomes a hallucinatory, shifting experience, through jump cut, lyric persuasion, and deadpan utterance. This is an emotional, resilient response to some of the essential issues of our day by one of America's riskiest and most innovative writers.…

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Título
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands: Poems
Autor
Of Creative Writing Nick Flynn
Editorial
Graywolf Press
Año de publicación
2011
Estado
Very Good
Encuadernación
Hardback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
1555975747
ISBN 13
9781555975746

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