The Coldest Winter on Earth David Dodd Lee Books
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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 David Dodd Lee Books
THE COLDEST WINTER ON EARTH Poems/1998-2011 is something.I have been a fan of David Dodd Lee's blog for several years.The poetry he posts is always fun.
My first favorite poet years ago was, and still is, Kenneth Patchen who, like Lee, was also a graphic artist. Training the graphic arts, painting and photography, enhance the eye. David Dodd Lee's observations sparkle. I also like the surreal quality of Charles Simic and the funk of Frank Stanford. David Dodd Lee fits in well with this aesthetic. He writes the Midwest environment Stanford wrote about the South.
I have a couple of Lee's other books, but they are more conceptual--not really what he posts in his blog. [...]
When the delivery man brought my copy of his new book, I immediately sat down and read it straight through. It takes about as long to read it as it does to cook a frozen five-pound lasagna.
And it is every bit as good as lasagna. The texture of the book is consistent, which makes a straight-through reading enjoyable, but each is worth a closer read. I particularly like poems that continue to reveal themselves through multiple reading, and these poems have enough imagination and meaning to entertain over and over again.
Lee situates his poems in nature (kind of country), but he twists the bucolic into something more contemporary, more mental--Abrupt Rural, "I'm just so much crushed garbage. Live in me. Talk. Bleed."
As an advocate for poetry I like to give poetry books as gifts. THE COLDEST WINTER ON EARTH will be my gift book for Christmas this year.
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The Coldest Winter on Earth David Dodd Lee Books Reviews
Lee's work is unerringly visceral, singularly invested on a deep personal level, and always offering a stark, unflinching display for both the speaker-self as well as the reader-observer. Place and memory are often of the most delineated actors in Lee's books but perhaps never as much so as in this newest collection. Lee seems unafraid of embracing not only the yearning and regret cultivated by the past but the rich, nostalgic confusion that occurs when it's mirrored and overlapped by the present. Life whirls around Lee's standing-still speaker as places and people empty out and refill -- this is really all that time is as it cruelly steps on. While textually many of these poems appear spare this is another of the brilliant gestures Lee knows so well, and just as a smell can trigger an entire season full of memories Lee's poems explode and engulf, shrink down to pinpoints with the weight of dark matter. His lines are full of characteristic leaps of association that can comfort or drunkenly go dizzy. There's always a deft, natural touch to the mechanical bits, the syntax and vocabulary, but Lee's unique flavor is in a matured, raw patina of breathlessness, anger, lust; artistry without guise, a performance that's never just putting you on. These poems are as comfortable throwing you against the wall as letting you quietly sink to the bottom of a pond.
There's good reason why David Dodd Lee remains a staple in the small group of poets I find I can reliably return to when hitting depressingly long dry spells between books that feel like knockouts. One of my flaws as a reader is my susceptibility to taking such spells in dramatic stride, despairing for no good reason that either there just aren't any books coming out that will genuinely unsettle me or that for some reason poetry has lost some of its destructive and surprising powers to me. Fortunately enough, these things are never true and Lee is a poet that invariably clarifies to me through absurd bouts of self-obfuscation what I personally value in a collection, or put another way, what gets inside of my head and refuses to leave. This kind of reliability is increasingly remarkable to me when over long careers many poets only oscillate in and out of this startlingly complex kind of efficacy.
For lack of a better term, Lee's 'staying power' when included on any shelf has been almost unparalleled in my experience as a reader of poetry over the years. 'Coldest Winter on Earth' not only manages not to be an exception to this rule but an admirably achieved high note.
THE COLDEST WINTER ON EARTH Poems/1998-2011 is something.
I have been a fan of David Dodd Lee's blog for several years.The poetry he posts is always fun.
My first favorite poet years ago was, and still is, Kenneth Patchen who, like Lee, was also a graphic artist. Training the graphic arts, painting and photography, enhance the eye. David Dodd Lee's observations sparkle. I also like the surreal quality of Charles Simic and the funk of Frank Stanford. David Dodd Lee fits in well with this aesthetic. He writes the Midwest environment Stanford wrote about the South.
I have a couple of Lee's other books, but they are more conceptual--not really what he posts in his blog. [...]
When the delivery man brought my copy of his new book, I immediately sat down and read it straight through. It takes about as long to read it as it does to cook a frozen five-pound lasagna.
And it is every bit as good as lasagna. The texture of the book is consistent, which makes a straight-through reading enjoyable, but each is worth a closer read. I particularly like poems that continue to reveal themselves through multiple reading, and these poems have enough imagination and meaning to entertain over and over again.
Lee situates his poems in nature (kind of country), but he twists the bucolic into something more contemporary, more mental--Abrupt Rural, "I'm just so much crushed garbage. Live in me. Talk. Bleed."
As an advocate for poetry I like to give poetry books as gifts. THE COLDEST WINTER ON EARTH will be my gift book for Christmas this year.
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