{"id":3064,"date":"2013-08-27T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=3064"},"modified":"2022-11-10T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T18:51:37","slug":"the-nervous-filaments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/the-nervous-filaments\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nervous Filaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

[column col=”1\/4″]\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

paper \u2022 96 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-884800-05-4<\/p>\n

Add to Cart<\/a>[\/column]<\/p>\n

The Nervous Filaments<\/em><\/h1>\n

David Dodd Lee<\/h2>\n

The word \u201cFilament,\u201d taken from David Dodd Lee\u2019s title The Nervous Filaments<\/em>, suggests both a fine thread
\nand the element of a light bulb that can be heated to incandescence, and appropriately so, as each of these
\nilluminated poems acts as a thread in a finely woven collection. Together they create a cultural commentary
\nthat is at once wry and satirical while still teeming with emotion. \u201cOne of the new jobs we have is dating \/\/ you
\nwork in reality TV\u2014\/\/ the myth of the soul mate,\u201d Dodd writes, but is the soul mate a myth? Still wary, Dodd
\nsays \u201cLove is a form of gambling,\u201d yet allows emotion to make its way in: \u201cPushing the linens back \/ we
\nconceive a love.\u201d This is the beauty of these poems: Dodd is able to find underlying truth and emotion in a
\nsometimes artificial and frenzied world, as when a speaker declares \u201cI know I woke up \/ and the sun was
\nstaring at me \/\/ Orange Juice \/\/ it\u2019s all about packaging \/\/ And the mockingbird knows something at 2 a.m.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee\u2019s poems explore both presence and absence, or, rather, what is present in the space created by absence: \u201cI
\nhave this candle and what she left on it \/\/ her smell.\u201d The juxtaposition of stark imagery in The Nervous<\/em>
\nFilaments<\/em> creates an acute sense of longing and loss: \u201cShe got the call at ten \u2018oh\u2019 seven \/\/ every child in her
\nclass began evaporating . . . \/\/ no good bye kiss \/\/ not even a word \/\/ driving and driving over long bridges.\u201d We
\nare continually left with a haunted feeling that the voices in these poems feel as we feel, and that they
\nexperience what we have or will experience.<\/p>\n

“Models Demand and Mutate,” from\u00a0The Nervous Filaments<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The trees are full of adjectives<\/div>\n
a face like an elephant\u2019s
\nslowly falls apart in your binoculars<\/p>\n

what about the zoning laws?<\/p>\n

but they rub themselves all over the tree with those legs<\/p>\n

a thousand to the bottle<\/p>\n

one by one you might tie them to hooks<\/p>\n

a loose sac unravels
\nin the stomach and the revival begins<\/p>\n

Iodine<\/p>\n

the perfect birth stone<\/p>\n

Alas, it\u2019s the clock of the world<\/p>\n

a candle burning<\/p>\n

where the gears should be<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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