{"product_id":"the-captain-asks-for-a-show-of-hands-9781555976330","title":"The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, the latest poetry by Nick Flynn, author of \u003ci\u003eAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ticking Is the Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Captain Asks for a Show of Hands\u003c\/i\u003e begins as a meditation on love and the body but 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. This is an emotional, resilient response to some of the essential issues of our day by Nick Flynn, one of America's riskiest and most innovative writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An unflinching attempt to use poetry to grapple with some of the most shameful monsters of this new century--the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib and the terrible cost war enacts on everyone caught up in it, both civilians and soldiers.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555976330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.08w x 0.31d","brand":"Nick Flynn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45351298498741,"sku":"9781555976330","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_96a8e2f0-d1da-41b4-8b54-49e4e90ab9a5.jpg?v=1746540905","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-captain-asks-for-a-show-of-hands-9781555976330","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}