the messerschmidt poems
Although Platypus Press has closed its doors, you can purchase a copy from Brookline Booksmith, or contact me through the website.
Also available on Amazon.
about the book
With a sense of conspiratorial play that channels Dickinson and Kafka (as well as Simic and Brock-Broido), Dobel’s debut returns us, marvelously, to ‘the violence of our seeing.’ — Jay Deshpande
What a radiant jewel of a book this is. Every chiseled line shines with intelligence and wit. Dobel has a gift for making the familiar glimmer with a thrilling new light. — Idra Novey
Obsessive and mysterious, Dobel’s The Messerschmidt Poems shatter the boundaries between art and artist. — Sam Ross
This book is a fascinating and delightfully peculiar debut. Dobel is a poet who sees clearly, and speaks with startling, refreshing clarity; it is a gift to be along for the ride. — Leila Chatti
selected POems
online
Two Poems, The Raleigh Review vol 9.1, Spring 2019
Aubade, wildness issue 15, August 2018
Calotype, TriQuarterly issue 152, July 2017
Chatroulette, Gulf Coast Online Exclusive, July 2016
Four Poems, Blunderbuss, June 2015
Kids These Days, Boston Review, April 2015, National Poetry Month Poem-a-Day 2015
It’s Not Science, But It’s About to Be, Sixth Finch, Fall 2014
Two Poems, The Cortland Review, February 2014
On the Distance of the Painter’s Arm, Kenyon Review Online, Spring 2013
Metaphor for Something, Guernica, Spring 2012
on paper
Involuntary Memory, Prairie Schooner, Summer 2019
Athlete, Colorado Review, Summer 2017
Annual, A Public Space, Winter 2013-2014
Rugby for Lovers, Cimarron Review, Fall 2013
Epistle, Mid-American Review, Spring 2013
Two Poems, Ploughshares, Winter 2012-2013
Messerschmidt Poems, Seattle Review, Fall 2012
Reviews AND ESSAYS
Jay Deshpande, Love the Stranger (YesYes Books, 2015). Reviewed for Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2018.
Matt Rasmussen, Black Aperture (LSU Press, 2013). Reviewed for Parnassus: Poetry in Review, June 2014.