Keith Flynn's third and most ambitious collection of poems, to date, uses spectacular and musical language to address a wide range of crucial social, political and moral issues.

The Lost Sea

Literature & Fiction

Flynn, Keith

Poetry

Iris Pr

Keith Flynn's fourth and most innovative collection of poems to date, The Golden Ratio, is filled with themes of music and balance, creating a literary world in opposition to our discordant contemporary times, where the human population is at odds with one another and the Natural World, out of sync and unfocused, spiritually and physically adrift. The book's six sections deal separately with the state of our government, our art forms, and our relationship and responsibility to the society that surrounds us. This book is a tour de force by one of our most distinctive poetic voices, seeking to redefine what it means to be human and creative in the face of overwhelming opposition.

The Golden Ratio

Trace Poetry's Long Blue Line and Discover the Power and Music in Your Own Voice
Poems are made of words, not ideas. Those words are rhythmic and, when chosen and composed properly, are capable of entering a reader's or listener's body and resonating. The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz, and Memory explains the historical connections between word, image, and sound to empower you to create work that is dynamic, vital, and musicalto create poems that live in the air.
The first section, Learning to Listen, begins by reflecting on the birth of the American poetic voice, teaching your to find your own voice by dissecting a poem's line, sound by sound, rediscovering not only the power of their poetry but also where that power comes from.
The second section, Learning to Observe, outlines the history of foreign influencesfrom the surrealism of French writers Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud to that of Spanish artists Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali inspiring you to explore your experimental impulses and discover new ways of seeing.
The third section, Learning to Speak, focuses on the influence of music on twentieth-century poetry, beginning with the troubadour and the slave experience, through the eras of jazz and blues, and onto the slam stages of the modern city. The different strategies of these performers offer insight into your development as a creator and prepare you to act as a vocal interpreter of your work.
The Rhythm Method equips you with the tools you need to extract the sparks of language, art, and music that have always stimulated and nourished our poetic vernacular and to use the fire to forge your own unique voice and your own style of performance.

The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How To Make Your Poetry Swing

Writer's Digest Books

The Skin of Meaning is award-winning poet Keith Flynn's sixth and most wide-ranging collection, seeking to find the tangible analogs and visceral meanings hidden behind the daily bombardment of digital information and hoping to restore the mystery in our involvement with language. From the etymologies of pop culture, history, astronomy, and rock and roll, these poems fan out into a bold multiplicity of voices and techniques. Flynn's work illustrates the meaning that is also created through tense collisions and is populated with figures in resistance to the status quo, a gathering as varied as Caravaggio, Nina Simone, Gaudí, Villon, Wonder Woman, and Manolete. The final section examines America's fascination with violence and death, revealing that "a human being in love with mystery is never finished." This collection constantly challenges our assumptions about the world we think we see and is teeming with evidence of another invisible world bristling like&nbsp;an underground river beneath our feet.

The Skin of Meaning

Red Hen Press

Expansive and innovative, this is the fifth collection from award-winning poet Keith Flynn. A place-based abecedarium, this compilation features two poems representing each letter of the alphabet. Recalling a specific place, city, country, or region, these poems vary in form and texture and are linked to the adjacent poems by a theme, an image, or a single word. The result is a collection filled with historical vignettes and an unerring grasp of contemporary culture. An almanac with inspiring insights into the human condition, this book utilizes a musical language and illustrates the planet's new global challenges.

Colony Collapse Disorder

Wings Press

Poems are made of words, not ideas. Those words are rhythmic and, when chosen and composed properly, are capable of entering a reader’s or listener’s body and resonating. The Rhythm Method, Razzamatazz, and Memory explains the historical connections between word, image, and sound to empower you to create work that is dynamic, vital, and musical—to create poems that live in the air.
The first section, Learning to Listen, begins by reflecting on the birth of the American poetic voice, teaching you to find your own voice by dissecting a poem’s line, sound by sound, rediscovering not only the power of your poetry but also where that power comes from. The second section, Learning to Observe, outlines the history of foreign influences—from the surrealism of French writers Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud to that of Spanish artists Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali—inspiring you to explore your experimental impulses and discover new ways of seeing. The third section, Learning to Speak, focuses on the influence of music on twentieth-century poetry; beginning with the troubadour and the slave experience, through the eras of jazz and blues, and onto the slam stages of the modern city. The different strategies of these performers offer insight into your development as a creator and prepare you to act as a vocal interpreter of your work.
The Rhythm Method, Razzamatazz, and Memory shows you how to extract the sparks of language, art, and music that have always stimulated and nourished our poetic vernacular and to use the fire to forge our unique voice and your own style of performance.

The Rhythm Method, Razzamatazz, and Memory: How to Make Your Poetry Swing

History & Criticism

Press 53 Carolina Classics Editions

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