False Positives is not a collection of poems or prose poems, but 65 of what author John Michael Flynn likes to call “uneasy hybrids,” each one started and refined and abandoned in one day, the whole collection written in 65 days while the author was under strict C-19 lockdown in Turkey, unable to leave his apartment. As an attempt to respond to the psychic demands of the lockdown, to achieve a rough and immediate sense of honesty, closure and truth during a time period when the author learned of his father’s death, each of the hybrids stays as close as possible to one page in length, written as a form of what Flynn deems “anti-poetry,” without artifice, a rejection of the stale trappings of a diploma-driven corporatized erudition, its Woke fascism, its brutishly cliquish IM’d, Snapchatted, Facebooked, unnuanced, cowardly, workshopped and generally dishonest and mediocre stabs at truth that he believes have come to define and marginalize what poetry now sells itself as in the West. These hybrid pieces reject staid conventions, showy frills and pretense, seeking to communicate story, each a visceral examination from the inside out, a release into timelessness and soul. They are made of the broken and the joyous, of reminiscence and confession, Flynn’s voice speaking in the moment to the moment, with an open nod to the influence of Breton’s surrealism, the pious Meditations of Donne, the prose poems of Baudelaire, and the energy of a mind unleashing itself and then pulling back to shape and sculpt hour by hour, from morning until day’s end, one work after another, each worthy, ultimately, of abandonment.
False Positives is not a collection of poems or prose poems, but 65 of what author John Michael Flynn likes to call “uneasy hybrids,” each one started and refined and abandoned in one day, the whole collection written in 65 days while the author was under strict C-19 lockdown in Turkey, unable to leave his apartment. As an attempt to respond to the psychic demands of the lockdown, to achieve a rough and immediate sense of honesty, closure and truth during a time period when the author learned of his father’s death, each of the hybrids stays as close as possible to one page in length, written as a form of what Flynn deems “anti-poetry,” without artifice, a rejection of the stale trappings of a diploma-driven corporatized erudition, its Woke fascism, its brutishly cliquish IM’d, Snapchatted, Facebooked, unnuanced, cowardly, workshopped and generally dishonest and mediocre stabs at truth that he believes have come to define and marginalize what poetry now sells itself as in the West. These hybrid pieces reject staid conventions, showy frills and pretense, seeking to communicate story, each a visceral examination from the inside out, a release into timelessness and soul. They are made of the broken and the joyous, of reminiscence and confession, Flynn’s voice speaking in the moment to the moment, with an open nod to the influence of Breton’s surrealism, the pious Meditations of Donne, the prose poems of Baudelaire, and the energy of a mind unleashing itself and then pulling back to shape and sculpt hour by hour, from morning until day’s end, one work after another, each worthy, ultimately, of abandonment.
False Positives
False Positives
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940164228231 |
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| Publisher: | John Michael Flynn |
| Publication date: | 08/23/2020 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 191 KB |