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