Flynn, Nick

There is clearly a lot to mine from Flynn’s youth, but this memoir is both disjointed and illusory, featuring imagined monologs from Flynn’s mother to engage audiences further. Best for die-hard fans of Flynn’s first memoir. [See Prepub Alert, 1/29/20.]

Beautifully crafted poems from the (broken) heart; the masterly Flynn doesn’t drag us into the depths but rises to meet us.

Poet/memoirist Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City) accomplishes the near-impossible by writing politically informed poems that do not spill over into polemic, instead offering a stunning investigation of human violence and particularly of torture (read: Abu Ghraib)...