An Orange vader ’ zo zegt de grootvader

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

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

a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe

Men in the Off Hours shows us a fiercely individual poet at her best

An Orange vader ’ zo zegt de grootvaderTed 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