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Likenesses explores the frontiers of metaphor and the power of repetition. The poems are at times at times skeptical, at times prayer-like, at times compulsive. They are populated by constantly shifting forms: cars become teenagers, leaves become “fall colored powder,” a thing breaks “into being.” Where, the poems seem to ask, among all the evolutions of the world do we
By Nick Flynn (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9780983300830 | Amer Poetry Review, September 13, 2016, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Likenesses explores the frontiers of metaphor and the power of repetition.

Paperback:

9780983300823 | Reprint edition (Amer Poetry Review, September 13, 2016), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: This book offers students insights, activities, and strategies for achieving goals and creating positive experiences throughout the college years. Drawing on Gardner and Jewlers extensive experience in the areas of student orientation and retention, this text engages students in developing strengths and awareness in all aspects of college life...read more
By Nick Flynn (foreword by)

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9780534518981, titled "Your College Experience" | Expanded edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 1997), cover price $32.95 | also contains Your College Experience | About this edition: This book offers students insights, activities, and strategies for achieving goals and creating positive experiences throughout the college years.

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Paperback:

9781555977108 | Graywolf Pr, June 2, 2015, cover price $16.00

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By Bill Arning, Elissa Auther, Nick Flynn and Marilyn Minter (other contributor)

Hardcover:

9780415043540, titled "Social Forms/Human Capacities: Essays in Authority and Difference" | Routledge, August 1, 1990, cover price $45.00 | also contains Social Forms/Human Capacities: Essays in Authority and Difference

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By Nick Flynn (foreword by)

Paperback:

9780803239876 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, February 1, 2015, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: "[Guernica] punches way above its weight class."—NPR Book News"Guernica stands out like, well, the intimidating cultural, artistic, and political force it is."—Bustle"The world, that terrible heaving gorgeous impossibility, is to be found shining in every edition of Guernica...read more
By Michael Archer (editor) and Nick Flynn (foreword by)

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9781608465088, titled "Guernica 1 2014: Annual 2014, Number 1" | Annual edition (Haymarket Books, November 18, 2014), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "[Guernica] punches way above its weight class.

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Product Description: This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951) extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set of Funk & Wagnall’s Universal Standard Encyclopedia (ca...read more
By Mel Chin and Nick Flynn (contributor)

Hardcover:

9780300204506 | Menil Collection, July 15, 2014, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry.

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Product Description: Covering all the key topics across the subject of Penology, this book gives you the tools you need to delve deeper and critically examine issues relating to prisons and punishment. The second edition: explores prisons and punishment within national, international and comparative contexts, and draws upon contemporary case studies throughout to illustrate key themes and issues includes new sections on actuarial justice, proportionality, sentencing principles, persistent offending, rehabilitation, and abolitionist approaches to punishment features a companion website directing you towards relevant journal articles and web links...read more

Hardcover:

9781446273463 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, May 12, 2014), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Covering all the key topics across the subject of Penology, this book gives you the tools you need to delve deeper and critically examine issues relating to prisons and punishment.

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9781446273470 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, May 12, 2014), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Covering all the key topics across the subject of Penology, this book gives you the tools you need to delve deeper and critically examine issues relating to prisons and punishment.

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Product Description: Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Introduction by Nick Flynn. From 2010 to 2012, Guggenheim Fellow and award-winning poet Lisa Russ Spaar was the poetry editor for the Chronicle of Higher Education's Arts & Academe and Brainstorm blogs, where every Monday she regaled an ever-growing audience with a brief commentary on a poem of her choosing...read more
By Nick Flynn (introduced by) and Lisa Russ Spaar

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9780988241602 | Small Pr Distribution, March 1, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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9781555976330 | Reprint edition (Graywolf Pr, January 8, 2013), cover price $15.00

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9780393344356 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 7, 2013), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance –  'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' –  is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific. Grounded in criminological spatial analysis, as well as more general social scientific investigations of the role of space and place in contemporary social, economic and cultural life, it examines why large numbers of prisoners in the United States and the United Kingdom appear to be drawn from –  and after release return to – certain urban neighbourhoods...read more

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9780415627627 | Reprint edition (Willan Pub, May 16, 2012), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance –  'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' –  is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific.

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Product Description: This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery...read more

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9780393341492 | Mti rep edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 6, 2012), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.

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Hardcover:

9780393068160, titled "The Ticking Is the Bomb: ...........A Memoir" | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 18, 2010, cover price $24.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441715791 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 31, 2010), cover price $76.00
9781441715814 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 18, 2010), cover price $29.95
9781441715821 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 18, 2010), cover price $29.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781441715784 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 18, 2010), cover price $54.95

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By Scott Brick (narrator) and Nick Flynn

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441733450 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 15, 2010), cover price $29.95
9781441733443 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 15, 2010), cover price $29.95

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By Scott Brick (narrator) and Nick Flynn

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441733429 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 15, 2010), cover price $90.00

By Scott Brick (narrator) and Nick Flynn

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781441733412 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 15, 2010), cover price $59.95

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Product Description: In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the company of three individuals, each mysterious in their own way: the specter-like Alice, ringleader of the neighborhood; Esra, a fifteen-year-old girl whose mother is MIA―again; and Ivan, a stranded businessman trying to make his way home...read more

Paperback:

9780865479852 | Faber & Faber, July 8, 2008, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk.

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Product Description: Evil, as interpreted by today's leading writers.

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9780977698943 | Tin House Books, April 6, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Evil, as interpreted by today's leading writers.

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Product Description: Nick Flynn conocio a su padre cuando ya tenia veintisiete anos y trabajaba en un albergue para indigentes en Boston. Jonathan Flynn, un aspirante a escritor, se habia marchado de casa cuando su hijo tenia seis meses. Nick ya era un adolescente cuando recibio algunas cartas desde la carcel, donde su padre decia que la experiencia le serviria para ser el Dostoievski de su generacion...read more

Paperback:

9788433974471 | Editorial Anagrama, April 1, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Nick Flynn conocio a su padre cuando ya tenia veintisiete anos y trabajaba en un albergue para indigentes en Boston.

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The son of a convicted bank robber and con artist describes their complicated relationship, relating how his father, while in jail, sent the author letters throughout his childhood and turned up in a Boston homeless shelter where the author was a caseworker. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780393051391 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 30, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The son of a convicted bank robber and con artist describes their complicated relationship, relating how his father, while in jail, sent the author letters throughout his childhood and turned up in a Boston homeless shelter where the author was a caseworker.

Paperback:

9780393329407 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The son of a convicted bank robber and con artist describes their complicated relationship, relating how his father, while in jail, sent the author letters throughout his childhood and turned up in a Boston homeless shelter where the author was a caseworker.

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Paperback:

9781555973735 | Graywolf Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: How do we read a poem? What can we teach from a poem we love? How can we name what poets do in order to inform our writing, our teaching?In their staff development work with teachers, Nick Flynn and Shirley McPhillips have often encountered these and similar questions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781571103208 | Stenhouse Pub, September 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: How do we read a poem?

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