Some Ether Paperback | Pages: 85 pages

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Title	:	Some Ether
Author	:	Nick Flynn
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 85 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2000 by Graywolf Press
Categories	:	Poetry. Contemporary. Fiction. Literature. American

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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."

Present Books Conducive To Some Ether

Original Title:	Some Ether: Poems
ISBN:	1555973035 (ISBN13: 9781555973032)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry (1999)

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A dark, beautiful debut collection in which Flynn comes to face many of the ghosts of his past--his dead mother, his homeless father, a wayward version of himself trying desperately to love but seeming to screw up along the way. While he never quite reaches redemption, by the end the speaker in many of these poems at least can imagine the possibility of it, which is a huge step.Prior to reading this, I read Flynn's memoir Another Bullshit Night In Suck City. While I preferred this book, I feel

I went out on a limb and bought a book of poetry based on the goodreads star rating of someone I don't know who seemed to have decent taste in obscure literature. Plus, I am trying to make an effort to read living poets who write in English.Of Flynn's first four poems, three were about suicide, two referenced guns, two referenced painkillers (by brand name) and one mentions cutting himself. It only got worse from there. Blah blah "my father is . . . a bottle wrapped in a paperbag" blah blah

this book gets better with second and third readings, and it succeeds because he's restrained as he's writing about these two people who have failed him as parents. he never has to bemoan the fact that they're bad parents, only has to show the way their behavior has shaped his emotional experience and there you have it.poems in the first section cluster around living with his depressed and erratic mother before her suicide, and the following section shows him constructing a life in her absence.

I really enjoyed Flynn's "another bullshit night in suck city: A memoir" and naturally assumed that sense and style of prose would follow henceforth in a book of poetry. For the most part, Flynn stuck to his guns writing directly from his guts and heart no matter the outcome. As with most poetry, the words are just a guideline, the reader creates the imagery and meaning from the words in front of them.The meaning I got from at least 80% of the poems in this book, was complete and on

This thing is made interesting by virtue of the existence of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. The oft-quoted finger-snapping quote is the best thing here, but fuck me if it isn't devastating. God knows why this seems to get more flak than anything else on my poetry reading list, including Dean Young's stuff.

I loved Flynn's poetry book about bees: Blind Huber. It was gorgeous, and didn't exhaust the subject, which often happens with poetry books that have just one topic.Some Ether is also fantastic. I read some of the poems from this book when it first came out because some of them were on Poetry Daily. I don't think they featured the best poems. I think the best poems in this book are the darker ones.Most of the poems in this book are about life with his mother, who committed suicide when he was

I really dig Flynn's style of poetry. This combination of imagery and more straight "confessional" autobio stuff is really breathtaking.