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The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands: Poems
Contributor(s): Flynn, Nick (Author)
ISBN: 1555975747     ISBN-13: 9781555975746
Publisher: Graywolf Press
OUR PRICE:   $19.80  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2010937512
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.43" W x 9.08" (0.66 lbs) 80 pages
 
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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.

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.