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I chose Nick Flynn as my Poet when I was writing my final paper for a poetry course years ago. I say this to reveal any bias that may have something to do with the 5 stars instead of four. While some may find this type of writing self-obsessed or see it as "whining" I enjoyed it. This whole collection felt like a well deserved catharsis that reached out from the pages. I still enjoy reading this book. It is dark and honest without feeling forced,which was appreciated. This is a great book and I would recommend it at senior level or college level due to some of the more graphic content.


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Some Ether Poems Nick Flynn 9781555973032 Books Reviews

I read this book as one of the several assigned to me before a writing conference. I'm not really a fan of poetry. Often time, I feel like the words only mean something to the poet and not to the actual audience. I generally don't like to not be able to figure something out no matter how hard I try. But in earnest, I truly enjoyed Some Ether, by Nick Flynn. For some reason, the words move me, and this does not happen very often with other people's writing. I feel like this is Flynn's soul on page. The words hum in my mind. The poems are beautiful and extremely thoughtful. I'm glad to have read this book, I hope Nick turns out much more fantastic work, and I wish him the best forever and always.
When I first heard that Nick Flynn's book Some Ether was a collection of poems which dealt mostly which his mother's suicide, I decided I would probably avoid it. Yet another confessional poet writing about how awful his life has been just didn't appeal to me.
But then I looked at a copy. And immediately bought it. Because Flynn does something far more than just write about his childhood trauma -- he transforms this awful experience into a series of dry, deeply affecting meditations. It isn't unnecessarily depressing, and it certainly isn't self-pitying. These are poems which dig into the core of human experience and emotion.
Many of the poems are fragmentary or collage-like bursts of imagery, memory, reflection, dreams. A quick first reading lets you notice many beautiful or quirky lines ("I'm sick of God & his teaspoons"), but also makes you feel a bit like the reader of a collection of postcards and shopping lists sent from a psychiatric ward. It's a unique feeling. A closer reading, though, reveals the art. Reading the poems together, slowly, listening for the harmonies and discords, becomes an overwhelming experience. By the time you reach the last lines of the last poem -- "My fingers/ tangle your hair, trace/ your skull, your face so radiant// I can barely look into it." -- you have been through a full emotional journey, a sensual quest for meaning.
It's not a perfect collection, but it shouldn't be. Despite the high quality of their crafting, these poems are raw. There are gaps and crevices between them. Terrain such as this needs to be rough.
I regret having missed the opportunity to meet Nick Flynn, as he was signing books and giving a lecture about "Some Ether" at the state college where I live. Before that I had heard very little about him, and soon as I heard the word "confessional" in reference to his poetry I decided not to go. Having pored over this collection for almost a year now, I wish I could go back just to have a few words with the guy.

This is not Gen-x, rehab riddled whining; it is emotionally powerful work from a man still trying to make sense of his traumatic past through the medium of poetry, which he has such a tremendous aptitude at that the subject matter ("depressing" or not) doesn't really matter.

It is only confessional in the sense of being intensely private; his mother's suicide and the alcoholism of his father have become shattered mirrors which he tries to reassemble in order to gain a coherent sense of self. Right from the first poem it would be impossible not to empathize with his plight or turn away "At the end there were straws/in her glove compartment/I'd split them open to taste the familiar bitter residue/near the end

I ate all her Percodans/hungry to know how far they could take me/A bottle of red wine each night moved her along as she wrote/"I feel too much", again and again/You asked how and I said, Suicide, and you asked/how and I said, An overdose, and then she shot herself/and your eyes filled with wonder/so I added/In the chest, so you wouldn't think/her face was gone/and it mattered/somehow/that you knew this. . ."

Flynn manages to make some sense of his horrific childhood in his later poetry, but "Some Ether" is more a masterful exorcism of personal demons. This is not "Young and Depressed In America" or anything like the self pitying trash that lines the bookshelves these days. Flynn does not ask for undue entitlement, only that we listen.
Was recommended this book, and in writing my own manuscript of poems, was eager to dive into it. I really needed some support from my writing elder. I never received the book or a mail notice. So I guess this means I'm reviewing , or UPS, or maybe just my, now, well read neighbors. Maybe I'll find this book on the clearance rack at Half Price books and have a chance to read it, or share it with my neighbors, and ask them if it looks familiar. Great book. As ethereal as ever.
I must admit openly that this kind of work is what I look for constantly. But, that said, as works like this go, it is one of my very favorite. I liken it to Atlantis by Mark Doty.

Flynn uses the white space well, his words and his syntax are excellent and you end up catching yourself nodding yes often.

I highly recommend Some Ether.
The emotional work these poems do is subtle, but after a couple of reads, very moving. I highly recommend this book, especially if you might have some experiences in common with Flynn. The work can bring back some bad memories of your own, but this body of work helped bring me to terms with some of what happened in my family history, too.
I chose Nick Flynn as my Poet when I was writing my final paper for a poetry course years ago. I say this to reveal any bias that may have something to do with the 5 stars instead of four. While some may find this type of writing self-obsessed or see it as "whining" I enjoyed it. This whole collection felt like a well deserved catharsis that reached out from the pages. I still enjoy reading this book. It is dark and honest without feeling forced,which was appreciated. This is a great book and I would recommend it at senior level or college level due to some of the more graphic content.