The Nervous Filaments

The word “Filament,” taken from David Dodd Lee’s title The Nervous Filaments, suggests both a fine thread and the element of a light bulb that can be heated to incandescence, and appropriately so, as each of these illuminated poems acts as a thread in a finely woven collection. Together they create a cultural commentary that is at once wry and satirical while still teeming with emotion. “One of the new jobs we have is dating // you work in reality TV—// the myth of the soul mate,” Dodd writ...