Downsides of Fish Culture (Inland Seas)

<p><div>DAVID DODD LEE's recent poems have appeared in Blackbird, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pool, Denver Quarterly, Slope, Pleiades, Laurel Review, Nerve, and Massachusett's Review. He is the editor of the annual poetry and fiction anthology, SHADE, published by Four Way Books. Lee is also the publisher of Half Moon Bay poetry chapbooks, which include titles by Franz Wright and Hugh Seidman. In the past he has served as poetry editor at Third Coast and Passages North. He has worked as a park ranger, a fisheries technician, and a journalist. He received the MFA degree in 1993, after taking a BFA in painting and Art History in the eighties. He teaches creative writing at Indiana University South Bend.</div></p>

Literature & Fiction

Lee, David Dodd

Poetry

New Issues Poetry and Prose

And Others, Vaguer Presences: A Book of Ashbery Erasure Poems

BlazeVOX Books

The Nervous Filaments

Four Way Books

<p>Poetry. "David Dodd Lee's Abrupt Rural is as exquisite as it is excruciating, though in a matter-of-fact, even understated way; it surprised me with its afterburn, and left me disoriented and oddly happy"--Claire Bateman.</p>

Abrupt Rural (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

Poetry. THE COLDEST WINTER ON EARTH is, essentially, a selected poems, with many of the poems comprising a manuscript that was once intended to be a follow up to Lee's visceral, autobiographical book of poems, ABRUPT RURAL. The book mixes those poems with several series of poems written over the last 15 years, including a small selection of improvisational "sonnets," longer poems written loosely in syllabics, prose poems, as well as a group of poems written under the influence of the Alaskan landscape in the summer (time of the midnight sun) of 2011. A few of the poems were written just after the appearance of Lee's first book, Downsides of Fish Culture, in 1997. While others were written for, but finally excluded from, The Nervous Filaments. Some of the poems were written as recently as the summer of 2011. In many ways the book is a throwback to Lee's more austerely narrative style typified by the poems written in the books that came before Lee's SKY BOOTHS IN THE BREATH SOMEWHERE: THE ASHBERY ERASURE POEMS, that is, Downsides of Fish Culture, Arrow Pointing North, and ABRUPT RURAL. THE COLDEST WINTER ON EARTH then, looks back, but it also looks forward to Lee's continued interest in merging form and content, to his restless search for whatever language will best connect him to the world. The poems included here are often comic, hallucinatory, dangerous, and consoling. Whatever the case, THE COLDEST WINTER ON EARTH is an unforgettable reading experience."Obsessively, elegantly, poignantly, David Dodd Lee immerses himself in the mysterious intercourse of self and place."—Franz Wright"David Dodd Lee's poems just don't work like anyone else's, they're far too possessed by their genius, beautiful, scary, saintly, grotesque—like the nature these poems confront us with again and again."—William Olsen

The Coldest Winter on Earth

Marick Press

Fit Under Here I remember a ship Dammit, I meant all along I should take that other child presently care is a hat a father looking out the window time's just a driveway, the parrot said, staring into the thudding fog and the future is a salesman with his name tag flying in a void

Sky Booths In The Breath Somewhere,: The ASHBERY ERASURE Poems

<p>Reading Animalities is like inhaling and exhaling innumerable versions of life―and like life, these poems embrace “carnage and joy”: “the sun on the horizon bleeding…/ where the loons swim in it by moonlight still laughing.” The curious juxtaposition of the familiar with the surreal―“the flaming peonies,” “black lemons floating on white water.”―contemplates the question, “Why is there something instead of nothing?” PRAISE FOR DAVID DODD LEE “Highly dynamic, irreverent, subversive, and driven by a kinetic music that often breaks into riot…”–Nick Sturm, The Laurel Review “Obsessively, elegantly, poignantly, David Dodd Lee immerses himself in the mysterious intercourse of self and place.”―Franz Wright</p>

Animalities (Stahlecker Selections)

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Downsides of Fish Culture (Inland Seas)

Downsides of Fish Culture (Inland Seas)

And Others, Vaguer Presences: A Book of Ashbery Erasure Poems

The Nervous Filaments

Abrupt Rural (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

The Coldest Winter on Earth

Sky Booths In The Breath Somewhere,: The ASHBERY ERASURE Poems

Animalities (Stahlecker Selections)