Open Arts Press is pleased to announce the publication of A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare, a new collection of poetry by Daniel J. Flore III.
Flore’s poems move through the strange, comic, lonely, abrasive, and unexpectedly tender corners of ordinary life. His voice is unmistakably his own: plainspoken without being simple, funny without losing sight of what hurts, and willing to follow a thought wherever it happens to go.
A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare brings that sensibility together in a collection that can be read in a sitting, returned to at random, or opened simply to see what peculiar thing happens next.
Open Arts Press is making the book available as a free digital download through Open Arts Forum.
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Daniel J. Flore III has been publishing poetry for many years, and his work resists easy classification. These poems can be absurd, intimate, irreverent, melancholic, and funny—sometimes within the space of a few lines. What holds them together is a distinctive way of looking at the world and an unwillingness to polish away its oddness.
A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare is published by Open Arts Press and is available now.