Captain Asks for a Show of Hands Poems

Name: Captain Asks for a Show of Hands Poems
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ISBN: 9781555976330

ISBN-10: 1555976336

ISBN-13: 9781555976330

Edition: N/A

Authors: Nick Flynn

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Now in paperback, the latest poetry by Nick Flynn, author ofAnother Bullshit Night in Suck CityandThe Ticking Is the BombThe Captain Asks for a Show of Handsbegins 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…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 1/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English






haiku (failed)


fire


false prophet


jesus knew


air


imagination





greetings, friend (minotaur)


kedge


the baffled king composing hallelujah


earth


hello, birdy


forgetting something


almost song


self-exam (my body is a cage)


water


invasion of the body snatchers


oh here





seven testimonies (redacted)


dear lady of perpetual something


e. corpse


pulse (hidden bird)


saudade