An Orange vader Men in the Off Hours

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

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

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

winner of the National Poetry Series)

and literary theorist

An Orange vader Men in the Off HoursTed 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