An Orange vader listening to Jazz with his

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

early to late

’ zo zegt de grootvader in het lange gedicht ‘De val’ tegen zijn kleinzoon

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

specifically how his own and Cuba’s Spanish

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