New poetry by the acclaimed writer Nick Flynn, author of "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" and "The Ticking Is the Bomb""electrocution, no the boy stood in the hot-hot room " "stammering I did stammering I did stammering I " "did stammering I did stammering everything you say I did " "I did. " " " from "Fire" "The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands "is Nick Flynn's first new poetry collection in nearly a decade. What begins as a meditation on love and the body 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,...
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