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The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands: Poems
Nick Flynn
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands: Poems
Nick Flynn
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.
80 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | February 1, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9781555975746 |
Publishers | Graywolf Press |
Pages | 80 |
Dimensions | 6 × 236 × 14 mm · 299 g |
Language | English |
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