The Lost Sea [Paperback]

Keith Flynn (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1, 2000

Keith Flynn's third and most ambitious collection of poems, to date, uses spectacular and musical language to address a wide range of crucial social, political and moral issues.

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Flynn's poetic vision is a music, immediate and large, and cosmologically local, wherever it happens and however it happens to transpire. -- From the introduction, "A Deep Intelligence of Peace," by Donald Revell

About the Author

Keith Flynn is the founder and managing editor of "The Asheville Poetry Review," which was established in 1994. He studied at Mars Hill College and The University of North Carolina--Asheville, winning the Sandburg Prize for Poetry in 1985. He moved to Nashville, TN in 1987 and formed the nationally acclaimed rock band, "Crystal Zoo," which has produced three albums. His poems have appeared in scores of journals and anthologies around the world including The Carolina Quarterly, The Colorado Review, Tdhe Cuirt Journal (Ireland), Defined Providence, New Millennium Writing, Word and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetryi, Poetry Wales, Earth and Soul: The Kostroma Anthology (Russia), Rattle, and the Southern Poetry Review. He is author of two previous collections of poetry: "The Talking Drum" and "The Book of Monsters." He lives with his wife, Aimee, in Marshall, North Carolina.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Iris Pr; 1 Ed edition (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916078515
• ISBN-13: 978-0916078515
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,187,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE LANGUAGE OF THUNDER, June 7, 2001

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Tim Peeler "tpeeler" (Hickory, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Sea (Paperback)

I have had this book since receiving a copy along with a large order of another book from this publisher in January. Finally, with the arrival of the summer semester, I had time to at first peruse and then devour THE LOST SEA.

Quite frankly, Keith Flynn is an undiscovered genius. Not since the late 70s when I first read Leo Connellan have I seen work that so thoroughly combines the passion of the human heart with a power and ease of language.

The range in subject matter is equally impressive: from classical art and music to the politically topical, from Rasputin to Ruby Ridge to My Lai.

Flynn's musical poetry works on many levels, but its strength mainly lies in powerful, original language. Crisp vivid imagery is elevated by imaginative metaphors and similes.

Flynn, a musician/songwriter as well, writes splendidly about both music and art. Here are just a few snippets from this HIGHLY RECOMMENDED book:

from "The Painter as Mantis Sings the Blues"

Painting is a very large plow carving its duty/ across the terrain of the dispossessed.

from "Agama" Like the remaining pieces of the snake/that slide toward one another/ even after rake has rent them apart,/the poet is the priest of the invisible

from "Lessons in Hunger" The room was filled/with her last sigh,/like a lily that breaks on the water/in a sudden bubble/and then the long horrid whine/of hospital machinery/with nothing left to do.