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Book Title

My Feelings

Subtitle
Poems
Author 1
Nick Flynn
Poem Excerpt
. . . the take from his bank jobs, all of it
 
will come to me, if I can just get him to draw me
a map, if I can find the tree, if I can find
 
the shovel. And the house, the mansion he
grew up in, soon a lawyer will pass
 
a key across a walnut desk, but even this
lawyer will not be able to tell me where this
 
mansion is.
 
—from “Kafka”
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In My Feelings, the author 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.

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List Price
$16.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-55597-710-8
Format
Format
Paperback
Publication Date
Publication Date
Subject
Subject
Pages
Pages
96
Trim Size
Trim Size
6 x 9
Keynote
The daring and intimate new book by poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, “a champion of contemporary American poetry” (NewPages)

About the Author

Nick  Flynn
Credit: Ryan McGinley
Nick Flynn is the author of four poetry books, including I Will Destroy YouMy Feelings, and Some Ether, which won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and three memoirs, including Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. He teaches at the University of Houston and lives in New York.
http://www.nickflynn.org/
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Praise

  • My Feelings offers no easy answers, yet the writing and the desire for transcendence make the journey compelling.”The Washington Post
  • “Flynn’s collection reminds us that feelings come from somewhere, often dark places, and they are not self-indulgent or gratuitous, but essential.”Houston Chronicle
  • “Flynn’s savage lines and elegantly unraveling syntax reconcile the personal, the cultural, and the unbearable with the vital, redemptive power of pain.”Interview Magazine
  • My Feelings overflows with grief, terror, anguish, guilt, and desire . . . stemmed by the levees of Flynn’s lean, precise, often uncapitalized and understated lines.”—Virginia Quarterly Review
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