I Will Destroy You

The newest collection from Nick Flynn, whose “songs of experience hum with immediacy” ( The New York Times ) Beginning with a poem called “Confessional” and ending with a poem titled “Saint Augustine,” Nick Flynn's I Will Destroy You 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 t