"The image at the heart of Danny Dover's opening poem in Flamingo Nation captures exactly the way we all 'search for words under the words when times get hard, ' and we each become 'like starving deer . . . pawing for apples at winter's end.' Every poem in this New & Selected volume is precise yet effortless, as surprising as one of those windfall apples that nourishes us at a time when so little can. Danny Dover cares deeply about his readers, crafting poems that help to make our 'hardened world' a better, more compassionate place. As he says in another of his wonderful poems: 'I welcome you the way I welcome the sun.' I'm in love with the light-filled kindness that lives at the center of this life-giving and necessary new book."-James Crews, author of Unlocking the Heart and Kindness Will Save the World.
