Orphan, Indiana is 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\u27s poems capture a verisimilitude that\u27s phenomenological, and yet of the moment.https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/uapress_publications/1141/thumbnail.jp

Lee, David Dodd

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Orphan, Indianaakron series in poetryOrphan, IndianaDavid Dodd LeeThe University of Akron PressAkron, OhioCopyright © 2010 by The University of Akron PressAll rights reserved • First Edition 2010 • Manufactured in the United States of America. • All inquiries and permission requests should be addressed to the Publisher, the University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio 44325-1703.14 13 12 11 10   5 4 3 2 1l i b r a r y  o f  c o n g r e s s  c a t a l o g i n g - i n - p u b l i c a t i o n  d a t a Lee, David Dodd.  Orphan, Indiana / David Dodd Lee. — 1st ed.   p. cm. — (Akron series in poetry)  isbn 978-1-931968-83-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isbn 978-1-931968-90-4 (cloth : alk. paper)  I. Title.  ps3562.e3383o77 2010   811’.54—dc22                  2010012962The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48–1984. ∞Cover: Photograph by David Dodd Lee. Used with permission.Cover design: Amy FreelsOrphan, Indiana was designed and typeset by Amy Freels in Electra LT Standard, with Hypatia Sans Pro display. Orphan, Indiana was printed on sixty-pound natural and bound by BookMasters of Ashland, Ohio.Poems in Orphan, Indiana have appeared in: Barn Owl Review: “This is How It Sounds Before Real Things Start Happening” & “Saint Paul: A Hermeneutics”; Field: “1999” (as “I Can’t Remember”); Verse : “Six Minutes” (online version); and Zoland Poetry: “Garlic Mustard,” & “Civilian Defense, 1942”.ContentsIHe Never Failed Strangely to Greet It  3Antediluvian  4The Jammed Log Position  5Saint Paul: A Hermeneutics  6I Would Sometimes Notice the World over My Shoulder  7The Bone Sculptures  8This Is How It Sounds Before Real Things Start Happening  9I Have No Rear View Mirror and I Am Incomplete  10The Gentleness of Herbivores  11Everyone You See Isn’t Everyone  12Poem for the End of Winter  13Rapid Eye Movement  14Beta-Carotene  151999  16The Wind in the Furnace  17IIXanax  21The Invention of Rope  22The Invention of Amino Acids  23The Calico Man  24Civilian Defense, 1942  25Dominion of Insects  26Stunt Double  27Inside Her Head He Has Another Head  28The Neck of a Horse  29Black Diagram  30Solipsism  31Poem Written in May  32The Slower the Fan Blade . . .  33What You Take with You  34Animal Magnetism  35IIIGarlic Mustard  39Kurt Cobain  40Weak Coffee  41Writing  42Untitled Poem  43Near Notre Dame  44The Unnameable Bone-Shell Room  45Mobile Home  46The Bliss-Tree Photographs II  47Six Minutes  48Programming Note  49IVAnamnesis  53Two-Thirds Cast Arbitrarily as “Mistress”  54Please Go Away  55Just What Is It That Makes  56Hunter’s Orange  57Night Light  58Andalusian  59Literally Himself in Spirit  60Dead Last in the Scheme of Things  62Eligible for Aging  64Snarge  65The Bliss-Tree Photographs III  66Government Sponsored  67Forty Years Ago Last Week  68Ice Fishing  69Far Away Home  70Notes  71 Heat stopped publishing 6 miles back where the décor was a door hanging free from a hinge.    —Catherine Meng, Tonight’s the NightI’m speeding west somewhere in the top of Ohio or Indiana, and to my right is the Arctic Circle, all white and scary.    —Arthur Vogelsang, A PlanetI3He Never Failed Strangely to Greet ItIt all starts with the sentence, chainof lakes like your blushing neutrality—Houses in his little hand like diceThen the windows reappearI begin to pray in the darkI stand upFlashes of light like the moonHeadlights all over the highway . . .Blood falls off the antlersThe suburb is smothered in rain coatsSmoke curlicues out of a red brick chimneyNobody says a wordNot one of the other dreaming passengers

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