{"id":1787,"date":"2010-11-19T19:58:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-109\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:25:51","slug":"orphan-indiana","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/orphan-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphan, Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Orphan, Indiana<\/i>\u00a0is 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.<\/p>\n

The poems in<\/i>\u00a0Orphan, Indiana\u00a0are cinematic, disorienting, atmospheric. It\u2019s like we\u2019ve just woken up or are about to go to sleep and the objects\/ideas\/bits of language have fallen out of their bins\/categories and gotten mixed up. We are constantly in a state of surprise\u2014to delightful, humorous, often poignant, effect. Just as each line is formally isolated by white space so that no one line is privileged over another, none of the poet\u2019s wide-ranging interests and concerns are put ahead of others. He is a nature poet, a cultural commentator, an erotic poet, a comic poet, a dumpster poet and a Fragonard poet, a cinema buff and an ice fisherman, a poets\u2019 poet and a people\u2019s poet. There is not a trace of elitism here, no hierarchy. Beauty, lyricism, satire, hallucination, revelation; yes, even wisdom\u2014these qualities are chock-a-block in this fine book.<\/i>
\n\u2014Dana Roeser, author of\u00a0Beautiful Motion\u00a0<\/i>and\u2003In the Truth Room<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

There\u2019s an unsettleability to<\/i>\u00a0Orphan, Indiana\u00a0that is relentless and remarkable as it builds upon, and co-exists with, his recent book,\u00a0<\/i>The Nervous Filaments.\u00a0The thinking occurs in quick cuts and side views, as if a manic tour guide were speaking to you on an intermittent intercom on a tour bus riding the back lots of the movie of Americans, or maybe it\u2019s the movie of America itself, where \u201cthe air popped in each joint.\u201d It\u2019s a large story of that which is alone, orphan, filament, automatic, that finally becomes both \u201cthe migration of Eros\u201d and a journey, a mitigation that \u201cclarifies by degree \/ The further you are from what scares you.\u201d I really like this book. It\u2019s wonderful.\u00a0<\/i>
\n\u2014John Gallaher, author of\u00a0The Little Book of Guesses<\/i>\u00a0and\u2003winner of the 2009 Boston Review poetry contest<\/b><\/p>\n

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David Lee<\/h4>\n

David Dodd Lee’s is the author of\u00a0The Nervous Filaments<\/i>\u00a0(Four Way Books 2010), as well as\u00a0Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere: Ashbery Erasure Poems<\/i>\u00a0(BlaxeVox 2010). His last book,\u00a0Abrupt Rural<\/i>\u00a0(New Issues), was published in 2004. Recent poems have appeared in\u00a0Blackbird, Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review, Pool, Denver Quarterly, Slope, Pleiades, Laurel Review, Nerve,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Massachusetts Review<\/i>. He is the editor of the annual poetry and fiction anthology,\u00a0SHADE,<\/i>\u00a0published 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\u00a0Third Coast\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Passages North<\/i>. 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by David Dodd Lee<\/h3>\n

Pages: 72; Size: 6″ x 9″
\nSeries: Akron Series in Poetry — series<\/p>\n

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