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Lapping Water
Some poets write for money, others write for fame, for relaxation, for something to do. Dan J. Flore III wrote his startling collection of poems because he felt he simply had no other his words were bursting against his skin, aching to escape his mind and make their way onto the page. Lapping Water is that seminal collection; a compilation of thoughts captured in ink, the result of emotional floodgates being torn open and only shut once every drop had been released.
Dan J. Flore himself was left gasping for air by the writing process. This was a rare inundation of feeling, a riptide of longing and loss that caused him to struggle against the currents of sensibility. To read this poetry collection is to dive into the moments of their creation… and there’s little doubt that you too will be left breathless by his craft, his honesty, and his series of evocative images and atmospheres.
“…Lapping Water, presents the voice of that quiet, nature-attuned man who observes without judging his own changes and the changes of those closest to him. These are unassuming and personal poems that do not partake of the ironic, subversive, rootless postmodern, but instead look to romanticism, imagism, and even further back, to the timelessness and transparency of such emotive lyrical poets as Po Chu’i and Tao Ch’ien a thousand and more years ago”
- New York Times bestselling author-Pamela O’Shaughnessy, Triggerfish Literary Review, Issue 10, November 2012.
“Poets like Flore, when we have the great fortune to cross their paths in verse — remind us that we aren’t alone in our struggles and experiences in matters of the heart, the folds of memory, in the grip of our loss — and our silent prayers and meditations alongside our spiritual quests. His newly released poetry book, Lapping Water, is filled with the echoes of a soul that speak not only for himself – but for many."
-Allehsya Hawk; latenightpoetsblog
Lapping Water
-a series of beautifully crafted poems
-a modern and fearless poetic voice
-a new approach to personal poetry
-emotionally moving and thought-provoking contemporary poetry
Dan J. Flore himself was left gasping for air by the writing process. This was a rare inundation of feeling, a riptide of longing and loss that caused him to struggle against the currents of sensibility. To read this poetry collection is to dive into the moments of their creation… and there’s little doubt that you too will be left breathless by his craft, his honesty, and his series of evocative images and atmospheres.
“…Lapping Water, presents the voice of that quiet, nature-attuned man who observes without judging his own changes and the changes of those closest to him. These are unassuming and personal poems that do not partake of the ironic, subversive, rootless postmodern, but instead look to romanticism, imagism, and even further back, to the timelessness and transparency of such emotive lyrical poets as Po Chu’i and Tao Ch’ien a thousand and more years ago”
- New York Times bestselling author-Pamela O’Shaughnessy, Triggerfish Literary Review, Issue 10, November 2012.
“Poets like Flore, when we have the great fortune to cross their paths in verse — remind us that we aren’t alone in our struggles and experiences in matters of the heart, the folds of memory, in the grip of our loss — and our silent prayers and meditations alongside our spiritual quests. His newly released poetry book, Lapping Water, is filled with the echoes of a soul that speak not only for himself – but for many."
-Allehsya Hawk; latenightpoetsblog
Lapping Water
-a series of beautifully crafted poems
-a modern and fearless poetic voice
-a new approach to personal poetry
-emotionally moving and thought-provoking contemporary poetry
85 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 10, 2017
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