Bøger af John Michael Flynn

John Michael Flynn taught for one year, 2015, as an English Language Fellow for the U.S. State Department at the Far Eastern State University in Khabarovsk, Russia. His poetry collections include Keepers Meet Questing Eyes, and Moments Between Cities. In 1998 he earned the Erika Mumford Prize from the New England Poetry Club. A resident of Virginia, find him on the web at www.basilrosa.com.

Music abides as an elemental force in the lives and situations chronicled in each of these seventeen stories and a concluding novella. The opening five stories groove to a noirish, mid-century jazz idiom, and the twelve middle stories develop as movements in an interconnected symphony of frustrations and felicities, while the novella charts in detail the pre-and-post Covid inner life of a boomer poet struggling obsessively with her bulimia and professional career aspirations. What all the characters share is a desire to follow Emerson's advice to "make much of your own place."

"Flynns prose at every turn is crisp and evocative; he has a gift for description of cities, landscapes and characters, the latter seem so real one could almost touch them. John Michael Flynns language dazzles to a very real end. The range of tonesand locales he uses is impressive but more impressive is the feeling invested in what almost inevitably slips through times fingers. This is a wonderfully vivid collection that crackles with energy and insight!"--Amazon.