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.

Author City: SOUTH BEND, IN USA

David Dodd Lee is the author of six books of poems, including The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books, 2010) Orphan, Indiana (University of Akron Press, 2010), SKY BOOTHS IN THE BREATH SOMEWHERE: THE ASHBERY ERASURE POEMS (BlazeVOX Books, 2010), and ABRUPT RURAL (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2004). He is the editor of SHADE, an annual anthology published by Four Way Books, and the former editor of Passages North and Third Coast. Together with Donna Munro, he is editor of Half Moon Bay poetry chapbooks, which has published titles by Franz Wright and Hugh Seidman, among others. Lee is currently a professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University at South Bend and lives in South Bend, Indiana.

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