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Home and Other Places I've Yet to See
Home and Other Places I've Yet to See is a book constantly raising its lights to their fullest intensity, glaring in the eyes of its reader, and its bulbs not only burn out but explode and shatter across its pages. With poems like headaches and cold compresses, like hell, earth, and heaven, Flore navigates subjects like God, love, sickness, health, travel, benches to stop for rest, and destinations. Daniel Flore lived in seven different locations and had two stints at homeless shelters in the three years it took him to write Home and Other Places, and the collection shows the sheer living Flore accomplished in that time. Climb into a secret crawlspace in your mind and open up Home and Other Places.
50 pages, Paperback
Published November 4, 2018
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July 3, 2019
“My head is an ocean of the past
A place where I immerse myself
To look at the blurry moments of what’s gone”
If you want some raw and honest, but beautifully written poems about life perspectives, Home and Other Places is the perfect place (see my pun?) for you! I laughed, gasped, and nodded my head to the relatability of the life cycles Flore describes through his poetry.
The fact that Flore lives in 7 different places and 2 homeless shelters during the process of writing this screams about his persistence to make it as a poet- this is the essence of what poetry is about. The struggles of an artist. If you are a writer trying to break into the genre of poetry, then this is a must-read for you.
A place where I immerse myself
To look at the blurry moments of what’s gone”
If you want some raw and honest, but beautifully written poems about life perspectives, Home and Other Places is the perfect place (see my pun?) for you! I laughed, gasped, and nodded my head to the relatability of the life cycles Flore describes through his poetry.
The fact that Flore lives in 7 different places and 2 homeless shelters during the process of writing this screams about his persistence to make it as a poet- this is the essence of what poetry is about. The struggles of an artist. If you are a writer trying to break into the genre of poetry, then this is a must-read for you.
November 11, 2018
Flore does a lovely job conveying memory and experience. A lot of his poems are focused on his childhood or love or sometimes both. I'm particularly a fan of "Praying over Hotdogs" and his poem about viewing strangers as the new lover. His poems often end with an emotional gut-punch, and that's something I quite enjoy.
January 28, 2019
Dan Flore is the real deal
This is a fine collection of meditations of life on the edge. Love, loss, homelessness, despair and hope weave through these poems like dark and glittering threads. Great stuff.
This is a fine collection of meditations of life on the edge. Love, loss, homelessness, despair and hope weave through these poems like dark and glittering threads. Great stuff.
March 8, 2022
Truly melancholy
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