Publisher's Synopsis
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
