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| Some Ether: Poems | 
 enlarge | Author: Nick Flynn
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 95570
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 1555973035
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN: 9781555973032
ASIN: 1555973035
Publication Date: May 1, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 To deny pain is to deny life............. January 28, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm not as a general rule crazy about poetry.I don't pretend to know much about the artform of poetry,the variations in style and what makes a great poem from a technical point of view. I do know that when I picked up this book and read the poems in it, I cried....If a poem is meant to be a collection of words which is an intensely personal expression of something in the poet's life, and which can convey to the reader some of the emotion felt by the writer, then this collection succeeds in its purpose. I take issue with the reviews which described these works as whiny and self-serving, they nothing of the sort, nor are they trite. Though the life conveyed on these pages might have been deserving of pity, Nick never asks for it. To the "reviewer" who wanted something to lift her spirits, I would suggest that she go buy some Helen Steiner Rice or a book of "Love Is.." cartoons; it's not this poet's job to make you feel warm and fuzzy about suicide and sadness....This is not a sugar-coated view of the world, but one in which pain and sorrow stand on their own and are not denied; they are large part of our human experience whether we want to face that or not. If we are ever to have the chance of getting through our pain, we need to feel it. Nick makes you feel the sadness, and that brings release, as I hope it did for him....My income is not such that I am able to spend more than an hour's wages on a book, for any reason, unless I really find some value in it. My family and I were deeply touched by the poems in this collection...(PS... A few of these reviwers might want to learn how to spell before they presume to criticize another's work!)
 Sorry, no December 1, 2001
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is quite simply one of the sappiest, self-serving collections of poetry to be published in the past 5 years or so in America. It is AWFUL.
 Beautiful lyrical narrative poems--buy it! September 8, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I think Nick Flynn's first book is absolutely stunning. It's the best lyrical poetry I've read in a while. The whole book is about him and his mother's suicide, but it moves well beyond what other's have called "confessional" and self-absorbed. He uses incredible and unique images, language, and aesthetic patterns to convey the complex emotions of loss, grief, pain--emotions which we, as humans, can all relate to. One of the best books I've read all year and certainly one of the best "first books" I've ever read.
 Not recommended July 19, 2001
1 out of 16 found this review helpful
I was going to give this book 2 stars, but then I thought, Why be nice? It was recommended to me by someone's mother and I guess I should have expected the worse from the start. It's conventional stuff. So I din't mean to criticize one's taste if that's what you're into. Just be warned that it doesn't take risks and doesn't lift your spirits or mind or anything of that good stuff.
old fashioned and out of place July 5, 2001
1 out of 14 found this review helpful
i read this book. i thought it was self-centered and boring and does nothing with the form. these are pretty poems about bad things. a silly, old-fashioned form that's been done very much more interestingly by others...
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