Cephalopodic a complete and utter submersion

a complete and utter submersion into text

lusty and wailing

yet cautions us not to fly too close to the sun

then a Captain America glass

including The Love That Moves Me

Cephalopodic a complete and utter submersionNothing is more anticipated, more fraught, more loaded, more parodied, more remembered, or more desired than a love poem. In this bold new collection, J. P. Dancing Bear manages, rather remarkably, to evoke and invoke some of the great romantic gestures of poetic history while simultaneously charting entirely new poetic territory. At one moment, his rich aquatic imagery recalls Walt Whitman or Pablo Neruda while at other times his voice feels utterly