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    MY FEELINGS[pull quotes]

    june 2015

    INTERVIEWWith all the blunt meta-sincerity that its title suggests, Nick Flynns fourth

    collection of poetry,My Feelings(Graywolf), is unafraid to claim the minds dark

    and self-destructive corners as its own . . . Flynns savage lines and elegantly

    unraveling syntax reconcile the personal, the cultural, ad the unbearable with the

    vital, redemptive power of pain.[Alice Whitwham]

    PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

    In his fourth poetry collection, poet and memoirist Flynn (The Reenactments)

    explores appetite and grief, clarity and absurdity, in lines of great technical skilland feeling . . . Though there is grief and loss in Flynns poems, there is comfort

    in lifes continuity, and the unknowing is rich with possibility.

    BOOKLIST

    Flynn writes of salt and ash, of things stinging and soluble, of whats left after the

    ravages of flood, of fire. Flynn cleans and cauterizes his wounds with the sifting

    and stitching of words and lines.[Donna Seaman]

    WASHINGTON POSTMy Feelings offers no easy answers, yet the writing and the desire for

    transcendence make the journey compelling.[Elizabeth Lund]

    HOUSTON CHRONICLE

    Flynn's collection reminds us that feelings come from somewhere, often dark

    places, and they are not self-indulgent or gratuitous, but essential, and can be

    transformed in the realm of the poem.[Doni M. Wilson]

    WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKSTheres a kind of humility in Flynns poetry. . . . Flynn is non-linear but you dont

    need a map because youll want to take risks with him he bonds us with

    words, and vulnerability, providing a cradle for our own feelings.[Grace Cavalieri]

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    Whether writing prose poems or astutely-lineated free verse, Flynns sturdy union

    of imagery and rhetoric creates poems whose emotional warmth and logical

    clarity lure the reader ever further along the tangled continuum of his haunted life.

    . . . Again and again,Nick Flynn considers the immutable borders that provoke

    warring feelings in us. To the tension created by these borders standing betweenthe present and the past, one consciousness and another, and between life and

    death, Flynn has written a powerful tribute.[Brian McKenna]

    BRAZOS

    Considering his past as both a memoirist and poet, its hard to not feel as though

    MY FEELINGS is the culmination of a journey, or at the very least that part in a

    road trip where you begin to recognize your surroundings and know youre getting

    close to home.[BJ Love]

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    BLURB

    Nick Flynn keeps resuscitating himself, and in doing so he refreshes and

    reaffirms the personal lyric as a crucial and necessary art. I read Nick Flynn's

    poetry to feel alive.[Marie Howe]

    APR

    All poems have some relationship to sentimentality. If the relationship is simply

    one of withholding, thats pretty thin.[Joy Katz]

    BOOKLIST

    Each word is a lit match, a thrown stone, a howling blast, a choking torrent. Flynn

    has forged daringly intimate and clarion poems of conscience.

    RUMPUS

    [Flynn's] books of poetrySome Ether,Blind Huber,The Captain Asks for a

    Show of Handsall ask difficult questions and leave us with a beautiful

    acceptance that there is often no answer at all, that our memories arrange things

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    in ways that may or may not offer closure. There is something about his work that

    allows us to exhale, to sit in our own messes and be okay.