September Eleventh: an epic poem, in fragments (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781953665065)

Part memoir, part multimedia experiment, part catharsis, Amalie ("ah-MAHL-ee-ah") Flynn explores how the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 both shatter and echo in us-both as individuals and as a culture.

Flynn is author of the 2013's Wife and War: A Memoir, and is also the poetry editor of the monthly literary journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree.

Her poetry collection September Eleventh grew first from a 2011 series of blog posts at septembereleventh.wordpress.com. In 2021, she recrafted the work as a random-access constellation of 130 social-media posts and on-line videos. Collected and presented now in print, the poems can either be read sequentially, or accessed by flipping among pages.

"Leave it to a poet to unlock something fresh and new in the space of 'remember that day' stories," writes the publisher. "Here is a narrative that both invites participants to recall their own experiences of a trauma in our nation's shared history, while also recreating the immediacies and uncertainties of what it was like to live through it."

In the print edition, each micro-poem is presented along with a shortened URL link to a corresponding YouTube video. In the Kindle e-book edition, each URL is a "live" hyperlink to that poem's video. Both editions also feature a scannable QR code to direct readers to the entire set of 130 videos.