Short version:
“These poems sit in your gut a while. Beautifully bleak, often hilarious, strangely hopeful.”
Long version:
“I read the first poem planning to give myself time between it and the next sort of like the pickled ginger between bites of sushi but I went right on to the second, third, and continued in that manner, greedy, right to the end. Maybe I was seeing how much I could take, the carousel of emotions, the zigzags delicious and unnerving at once, sometimes tragic and often with veins of sweetness and I think that's what poetry is for, to give you a glut of emotions you can't even identify. I felt as if I'd been on an epic roller coaster ride, dangerous as hell, but I made it. I gave it a day or two and then went back and read them again, this time slowly. I felt as if I'd been on an epic roller coaster ride, dangerous as hell, but I made it.”
-Sherry Cassells
“Flore's poetry is everyday-life gritty, full of unexpected humor and pathos. "Written in the Dust on the Ceiling Fan" is worth reading again and again.”
-- Nolcha Fox, author of "My Father's Ghost Hates Cats" and "The Big Unda"
“These lines are raw, brutal and tender at the same time. Funny in the honorable way that funny precedes the tears. Flore faces the inequities of life searching for the brief joy that mitigates our non-place on this pinprick planet. Mix savagery and pink champagne with high-test lonesome and you’re in the realm of Written In The Dust On The Ceiling Fan.”
—Anthony Hughes is an English teacher and a writer living in the Rio Grande Valley. He is an assistant editor at Poetry South
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