An Orange vader and literary theorist

and literary theorist

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

a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe

An Orange vader and literary theoristTed 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