Nick Flynn
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A searing memoir from critically acclaimed author Nick Flynn, on how childhood spills into parenthood. When Nick Flynn was a child, his mother set fire to their home. With the spare lyricism and dark irony of his classic, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Flynn excavates the terrain of his traumatic upbringing and his mother's suicide. Now a parent himself, he discovers that he too may be burning his house down. He returns with his young daughter...
4) Some ether
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
85 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
7) Low: poems
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
111 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Low explores the jaggedness of memory and what is salvageable when the past is broken by loss, violence, and trauma.
"Low explores the jaggedness of memory and what is salvageable when the past is broken by loss, violence, and trauma. Punctuating Nick Flynn's signature lyric poems are prose pieces and sequences, veering toward essays, including "Notes on a Calendar Found in a Stranger's Apartment," a truly strange experience of cataloging a deceased...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
94 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
357 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The son of a convicted bank robber and con artist describes their complicated relationship, relating how his father, while in jail, sent the author letters throughout his childhood and turned up in a Boston homeless shelter where the author was a caseworker.
11) Saudade
Author
Publisher
Land's End Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
54 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 33 cm
Language
English
12) Being Flynn
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between parent and child. Nick Flynn is a young writer seeking to define himself. His father Jonathan, however, scrapes through life on his own terms and has not seen his son in 18 years. Taking a job at a homeless shelter, Nick finds purpose in his own life and work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed. To give the two of them a shot at a real future, Nick wrestles with the notion...
