Ryan Quinn Flanagan's Minotaur Snow is an urban menagerie of very human poems. Difficult situations, individual foibles, that unescapable rush of the modern city; the sights and sounds and smells and touch, all told with great humour and at times, compassion. Flanagan peoples the landscape in such a way that his experiences become your experiences, his revelations and perspectives a busy populous of comings and goings all captured in a language that is both highly accessible and littered with odd notions or turns of phrase. Minotaur Snow above all else is a book that captures what is timeless to our shared experience, but with a fierce individuality that washes over everything like a heavy falling snow. |
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Ryan Quinn Flanagan throws one heck of a party. Rub elbows with the likes of Darwin, Kahlo, Cocteau, Monroe, Mingus, Fellini, even Fay Wray, in this deliciously cynical collection. Quinn Flanagan's noir humor, coupled with first-rate poetic chops results in a darkly brilliant book you’ll find hard to put down.
—Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of EROTIC: New & Selected, poetry editor, Cultural Daily
Ryan Quinn Flanagan's Minotaur Snow is a terrific poetry collection that sparkles with the living moment. Always readable, always thoughtful, Flanagan's poems offer great truths in everyday experiences. Whether in the basement laundromat, or at the gym, Flanagan makes fantastic worlds out of the mundane.
—Mike Fiorito, author of Falling from Trees
Ryan Quinn Flanagan's new book Minotaur Snow picks up where his recent Crossdressing with Heidegger left off as a wry, observant poet's exploration of his sometimes squalid world. Minotaur Snow contains even more variety, beginning with "How Lovers Become Informants," set in a contemporary version of Orwell's 1984. I encourage you to explore Ryan's sardonic, insightful delineations of our world. You have probably read his widely-published poems in any number of blog-zines; reading them in conjunction with each other is delightfully rewarding.
—Marianne Szlyk, author of On the Other Side of the Window and Poetry en Plein Air
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