Winner of a "Discovery"/The Nation Award
Winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Some Ether is one of the more remarkable debut collections of poetry
to appear in America in recent memory. As Mark Doty has noted, "these
poems are more than testimony; in lyrics of ringing clarity and strange
precision, Flynn conjures a will to survive, the buoyant motion toward
love which is sometimes all that saves us. Some Ether resonates in the
imagination long after the final poem; this is a startling, moving
debut."