“In How Should I Walk?, Dan Fleshler’s poems blossom and sprout and explode. He plants his poems the way he depicts himself tending a patch of dirt in an urban garden—gingerly, stubbornly, with grace. This is a book about learning to walk—through illness, through beauty, through the wreckage and wonder that the world keeps tossing at our feet, one step, one fragile sprout at a time. Put your face inside these poems and smell the fertile nature of their loam.”
– Matthew Lippman, author of We Are Sleeping With Our Sneakers On