David Dodd Lee

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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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.