The captain asks for a show of hands, poems, Nick Flynn
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The captain asks for a show of hands, poems, Nick Flynn
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poetry
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The captain asks for a show of hands
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650212600
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Nick Flynn
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poems
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"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, singing. Each poem becomes a hallucinatory, shifting experience, through jump cut, lyric persuasion, and deadpan utterance."--Dust jacket
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