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Now in paperback, the latest poetry by Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the BombThe Captain Asks for a Show of Hands begins as a meditation on love and the body but soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media repo

Title	:	The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands: Poems
Author	:	Nick Flynn
Rating	:	4.96 (708 Votes)
Asin	:	1555976336
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	104Pages
Publish Date	:	2016-10-26
Language	:	English

Now in paperback, the latest poetry by Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the BombThe Captain Asks for a Show of Hands begins as a meditation on love and the body but 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 Nick Flynn, one of America's riskiest and most innovative writers."An unflinching attempt to use poetry to gra

She will be discharged from the Israeli Defense Forces in a few weeks and looks forward to being a civilian again. Amazing and nice book. He's a great character, and I'm happy to get to know a goblin. 108)She points out that Warren Farrell [once the author of The Liberated Man, and a board member of New York NOW) changed radically, writing Why Men Are the Way They Are. I am trying to educate myself about the Islamic religion and history so I can understand what is going on in the Middle East and is now moving to every country in the world. Right now both are working on cases that overlap which means they are spending even more time together.The duo concludes that a female assassin has killed at least three people in the area. Part of this is due to the lack of a restoration of the Temple or of an earthly Jerusalem in II Baruch's eschatological visions; this is more in concert with Christian than Jewish prophetic hopes.This study is technical and precise; as w

. All rights reserved. "Capt'n, we can do as we wish, we can do/ as we wish with the body// but we cannot leave marks"; "one drop hangs on the prisoner's tongue—capt'n// are we allowed to force him to swallow?" Torture, imprisonment, and arduous military service are leitmotifs, or metaphors, in most of the volume's poems, and a wartime, warlike, post-9/11 America forms their backdrop: "the tower towers above us/ now, we can see it/ from wherever." Flynn's political anger does nothing to diminish his raggedly individual voice, and his shorter efforts include what sound like dissonant wartime love poems: "First thing we should do/ if we see each other again is to make/ a cage of our bodies—inside we can place/ whatever still shines."" (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. From Publishers Weekly Terse, at