Orphan, Indiana

Lee, David Dodd

Genre: books4me > Poetry

Format: Book - Paperback

Released: Fri 19 Nov 2010

Catalogue Number: 0008914892

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The poems in Orphan, Indiana are cinematic, disorienting, atmospheric. It's like we've 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---to 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's 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' poet and a people's poet. There is not a trace of elitism here, no hierarchy. Beauty, lyricism, satire, hallucination, revelation; yes, even wisdom---these qualities are chock-a-block in this fine book.---Dana Roeser, author of Beautiful Motion and in the Truth Room There's an unsettleability to Orphan, Indiana that is relentless and remarkable as it builds upon, and co-exists with, his recent book, The Nervous Filaments. The 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's the movie of America itself, where "the air popped in each joint." It's a large story of that which is alone, orphan, filament, automatic, that finally becomes both "the migration of Eros" and a journey, a mitigation that "clarifies by degree / The further you are from what scares you." I really like this book. It's wonderful.---John Gallaher, author of The Little Book of Guesses and winner of the 2009 Boston Review poetry contest

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Subject Development: Poetry
Geographic Designator: United States
Academic Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Depth (m): 0.006
Dewey: 811/.54
Height (m): 0.229
Pages: 71
Place Of Publication: United States
Published Date: Fri 19 Nov 2010
Volume:
Weight (g): 136
Width (m): 0.152

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