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Poet NYS Writers Institute, September 21. 2004 PROFILE Flynn writes, "Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. But if I let him inside, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up."
"Although it's depressing, the book never seems hopeless, because readers know the author has succeeded at doing what his father only pretended to do: write, and write well." - Publishers Weekly "Devastating" . . ."ranks with Frank Conroy's 'Stop-Time.'" - Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist Booklist ranked "Some Ether" among the ten best poetry collections of the year 2000, saying, "At the epicenter of this meticulously parsed, restrained, and quietly beautiful collection stands a young husbandless mother, a goddess, it seems, of life and of death, who eventually commits suicide and forever haunts her loyal and wounded son." The Ploughshares reviewer said, "'Some Ether' combines nakedness, elegance, and emotional intelligence. The poems are beautifully clear in their particulars and meanings."
The Booklist reviewer said, "Spellbound within wax edifices beneath a honey rain, Flynn succinctly and resonantly contrasts the dense and thrumming bee realm with our own buzzing, bittersweet world of avid appetites and aggressions, longing and valor." Former U. S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz calls "Blind Huber," "a work of the creative imagination unlike any other." For additional information, contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst. |