Galaxy Drip

"Timothy Dodd almost cancelled his reservation at the Motel 8 of America, but he's glad he didn't. It's a good vantage point for people watching, and the sign is so bright you can see clear up into space. In Galaxy Drip, his latest poetry collection, Dodd's concerns haven't changed, but the setting has-contemporary America. He does seem more conflicted in these poems, but no less sure. Like any good poet, he equivocates (poetry is, in a sense, the art of equivocation). "Here is a truth," the poet says, "maybe." Dodd is no different in this regard. He wags a finger at our sad, crass consumerist twenty-first century America, but he also reaches out for it, because while he does not approve of it, he loves it (even if he says he doesn't) and elucidates with convincing specificity our uniquely American devolution. Whether it be a dying shopping mall, a smutty Circle-K, or a garish grocery store, Dodd sees something worth considering, even if he doesn't always think it's worth saving. "Whatever this is isn't progress," he says, "but it is fascinating." He offers no antidote to the sickness he sees because he isn't sure he wants it cured. What would the cure be, anyway? A pining for the past? A back-to-basics ethos? No, the past is not romanticized in Galaxy Drip. Nor is nature. Not even space...This book might be a sort of elegy to substance. Or, rather, the mourning of a substance that never was. Not here, at least."-Steve Lambert, author of The Shamble and The Patron Saint of Birds"In Galaxy Drip, Timothy Dodd continues to explore the overwhelming realities of modern life as pop culture of the past and present fades in and out, then in again. Often with conflicting tones of sarcasm and sincere appreciation, he references the likes of Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain next to Molly Hatchet, Madame Bovary to Kitty Pryde. Dodd shows advancement in his exploration of form with this collection, employing it to offer a grand flow of assorted images to the reader. Through the highways and hospitals, malls and shopping plazas, truck stops and corner stores, he reconciles the old with the new, writing about the people around him like an emotional journalist with empathetic eyes, offering cinematic depictions with uncanny depth and insight. This is a wonderful collection not to miss!"-David Alec Knight, author of Leper Mosh (Cajun Mutt Press)