false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20657.jpg 20657 1 <div><b>Winner of a "Discovery"/<i>The Nation</i> Award</b><br><b>Winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry</b><br><br><i>Some Ether</i> 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. <i>Some Ether</i> resonates in the imagination long after the final poem; this is a startling, moving debut."<br></div> 21845 1 5 2000 Some Ether: Poems total:320|5:139|4:118|3:49|2:13|1:1| 320 1341 416 39 5 2 false false Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 13:28:20 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 20:51:04 -0700 2008 Some Ether again. This is not only the first book of poetry, but the first book period that I've ever wanted to re-read as soon as I finished it. Okay: want is slightly misleading. I feel I need to read it again, just to fully understand and apprecia...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 19:54:24 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 18:25:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 06:02:20 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 07:42:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 15:14:42 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 07:37:14 -0700 2008
The ones I really liked were: bag of mice, radio thin air, sudden, emptying town, salt, residence, f...more...]]> 1 2 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 29 14:19:11 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 12 18:16:48 -0700 2008
Of Flynn's first four poems, three were about s...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Sep 12 17:20:42 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 17:25:22 -0700 2009
Flynn picks great epigrams ("It is a joy to be hidden / but disaster not to be found"). However, I'm not a huge fan of the confessional style, in general, and this bo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 20:42:02 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 21:09:00 -0700 2009
Flynn takes us on a journey through his childhood- divorce parents, a troubled mother, strange men, and his mother's suicide. ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 09 08:21:02 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 23 09:10:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 25 09:40:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 09:43:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 16:45:25 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 09:06:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 21:56:49 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 21:12:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 15 18:24:29 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 18:25:38 -0700 2009
one doctor asks if I hear things
other people don't
one said frostbite said
all your toes said amputate

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The poems in Some Ether were his way of working through his mother's suicide when he was 22. Although none of the poems are especially graphic, they ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Apr 02 09:26:38 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 02 11:15:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 09 08:26:12 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 08:30:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 06 11:35:18 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 11:48:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Mar 26 21:21:10 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 21:22:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 21 20:01:43 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 20:09:32 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 17:46:17 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 17:50:12 -0800 2008
i found this book by accident in the library while looking for something else. so glad i did.

the first bit of the book, the part most openly about his mother, is my favorite. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=20657