An Orange vader listening to Jazz with his

listening to Jazz with his stomach while military trains unload the wounded

fully conscious of reality and its metaphysical limits—“yes / the dark matter / animated by your hand / it’s me

een eigen invulling tegemoet waar verlichting en verlossing het overnemen van verlies en verlamming

winner of the National Poetry Series)

An Orange vader listening to Jazz with hisTed Dodson It would be too easy to say love vanished from the earth begins Ted Dodsons An Orange, his thoughtful, experiential second collection of poems. Its a provocation to which An Orange wholeheartedly responds. Dodsons work reroutes essay, narrative, and confessionalism, detouring from criticism into bisexual desire and navigating modernity as fluently as it imagines speculative destinations for language. From the graceful realism of the opening