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Nick Flynn
September 27, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeBeginning with a poem called “Confessional” and ending with a poem titled “Saint Augustine,” Nick Flynn’s I Will Destroy You (Graywolf) interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past, his actions, his propensity to destroy others and himself. Begin by descending, Augustine says, and the poems delve into the deepest, most defeating parts of the self: addiction, temptation, infidelity, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity, jagged and probing.