| Some Ether Contributor(s): Flynn, Nick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555973035 ISBN-13: 9781555973032 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 99067244 |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6.12" W x 9.08" (0.38 lbs) 85 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of a "Discovery"/The Nation Award 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." |
Contributor Bio(s): Flynn, Nick: - NICK FLYNN's work--which includes Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Memoir, and the poetry collections Blind Huber and Some Ether--has been translated into thirteen languages. |