The Coldest Winter on Earth

(Poetry. THE COLDEST WINTER ON EARTH is, essentially, a se...)

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

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Orphan, Indiana (Akron Series in Poetry)

(Orphan, Indiana is a collection of spontaneous outbursts ...)

Orphan, Indiana is a collection of spontaneous outbursts framed by reticence and the guiding mania of the subconscious. Profane and poignant, accidental-seeming but soaring with satirical intent, David Dodd Lee's poems capture a verisimilitude that's phenomenological, and yet of the moment.

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The Coldest Winter on Earth by David Dodd Lee (2012-05-22)

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Animalities (Stahlecker Selections)

(Reading Animalities is like inhaling and exhaling innumer...)

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

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Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere: The Ashbery Erasure Poems

(Fit Under Here I remember a ship Dammit, I meant all alon...)

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

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The Nervous Filaments

(Book by Lee, David Dodd)

Book by Lee, David Dodd

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Sky Booths In the Breath Somewhere, The ASHBERY ERASURE Poems

(Fit Under Here I remember a ship Dammit, I meant all al...)

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 David Dodd Lee is the author of four full-length books of poems, Downsides of Fish Culture (New Issues Press, 1997), Arrow Pointing North (Four Way Books, 2002), Abrupt Rural (New Issues Press, 2004), The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books, 2010), and a chapbook , Wilderness (March Street Press, 2000). He has two new books forthcoming: Orphan, Indiana (University of Akron Press, 2010) and The Coldest Winter on Earth (Marick Press, 2011). He has published poetry and fiction in literary journals and magazines including Field, Denver Quarterly, Nerve, Jacket, Interim, Court Green, Green Mountains Review, Crowd, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Sycamore Review, Mississippi Review, The Laurel Review, The Hat, Shampoo, POOL, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, and American Literary Review. Lee was the editor of SHADE, an anthology published by Four Way Books in 2004 and 2006, as well as a former poetry editor at Passages North and poetry editor for Third Coast. In addition he has guest edited recent editions of The Laurel Review (where he remains an active contributing editor) and Passages North. He is also the editor of The Other Life, The Selected Poems of Herbert Scott (Carnegie Mellon, 2010). Together with Donna Munro, he published Half Moon Bay poetry chapbooks, which included titles by Franz Wright and Hugh Seidman, among others. Lee earned a degree in Painting and Art History in 1986 and a MFA in Creative Writing in 1993 (while working as a park ranger) both from Western Michigan University. He sometimes makes his living as a freelance editor. He is currently a professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University at South Bend and lives in South Bend, Indiana, where he also continues to make visual art. The working title of his latest book of poems is URGE. He maintains a blog at seventeenfingeredpoetrybird.blogspot.com

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