My Feelings: Poems

A daring and intimate new book by the poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, "a champion of contemporary American poetry" ( Newpages ). . . the take from his bank jobs, all of itwill come to me, if I can just get him to draw mea map, if I can find the tree, if I can findthe shovel. And the house, the mansion hegrew up in, soon a lawyer will passa key across a walnut desk, but even thislawyer will not be able to tell me where thismansion is.―from "Kafka"In My Feelings , Nick Flynn makes no claims on anyone else's. These poems inhabit a continually shifting sense of selfhood, in the attempt to contain quicksilver realms of emotional energy―from grief and panic to gratitude and understanding.