Echoes of the Unspoken
Echoes of the Unspoken invites analysis of its method, for how the poems unfold is as interesting as what they say. In fact, how they unfold is what they say, or a great part of it. Dodd is continually amazed at the 'miracle' of words--the sound of them in the ear, the sight of them on the page ... to read this book is to find those insights that sometimes get lost in the syntax of narrative, to feel the junctures where self and world converge, to discover something about the process of being alive...
--Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review