As in the opening poem of Flamingo Nation, Danny Dover captures the way we all "search for words under the words when times get hard", and become "like starving deer. .

. pawing for apples at winter's end.

"Danny Dover's poems take the reader on journeys with destinations as far-flung as Kathmandu and Ireland; a high Himalayan trail and a subway packed with immigrants; the tattooed arm of a diner waitress and a flamingo stranded in Siberia; through moments of grief and humor and even a broken marriage saved with superglue. Yet no matter the distance he always brings us back home to a world now subtly changed by "a little kindness and sense of direction".

In the words of James Crews, author of Unlocking the Heart and Kindness Will Save the World: "Every poem. .

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is precise yet effortless. .

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Danny Dover cares deeply about his readers, crafting poems that help to make our 'hardened world' a better, more compassionate place. .

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I'm in love with the light-filled kindness that lives at the center of this life-giving and necessary new book. ".