{"product_id":"9781555977108","title":"My Feelings : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMy Feelings\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Nick Flynn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA daring and intimate new book by the poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, \"a champion of contemporary American poetry\" (\u003ci\u003eNewpages\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . the take from his bank jobs, all of it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewill come to me, if I can just get him to draw me\u003cbr\u003ea map, if I can find the tree, if I can find\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe shovel. And the house, the mansion he\u003cbr\u003egrew up in, soon a lawyer will pass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea key across a walnut desk, but even this\u003cbr\u003elawyer will not be able to tell me where this\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emansion is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e —from \"Kafka\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMy Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e, Nick Flynn makes no claims on anyone else's. These poems inhabit a continually shifting sense of selfhood, in the attempt to contain quicksilver realms of emotional energy—from grief and panic to gratitude and understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From the first moment I looked up from a page Nick Flynn had written on, I was a goner: I wasn't where I used to be; I went somewhere with him, into consciousness itself, into time, into a story so shattered that only poetry could begin to tell it. Here he is again, writing as if his life depends on it, using every trick he can find to carve the tunnel through the mountain. Words are what he uses; silence is the sound they make. Nick Flynn keeps resuscitating himself, and in doing so he refreshes and reaffirms the personal lyric as a crucial and necessary art. I read Nick Flynn's poetry to feel alive.” —\u003ci\u003eMarie Howe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Each word is a lit match, a thrown stone, a howling blast, a choking torrent. Flynn has forged daringly intimate and clarion poems of conscience.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist on Nick Flynn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Flynn's] books of poetry--\u003ci\u003eSome Ether\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlind Huber\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Captain Asks for a Show of Hands\u003c\/i\u003e--all ask difficult questions and leave us with a beautiful acceptance that there is often no answer at all, that our memories arrange things in ways that may or may not offer closure. There is something about his work that allows us to exhale, to sit in our own messes and be okay.” —\u003ci\u003eRumpus on Nick Flynn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed NPR Best Book of the Year (2015)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781555977108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40596078657742,"sku":"9781555977108","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_7f8dfc0c-bf0d-4a74-8b50-987cfea3aaf5.jpg?v=1637848676","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781555977108","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}