Geden’s second collection of poems explores questions of belonging
and displacement, travel, and the challenges of maintaining
connections in an ever-changing world. In "Time Passes," about
Pierre Reverdy, he writes, "He never found any shelter other
than space," and many of the poems echo this sense of being
"on the edge, halfway out / the door." The poems are liable to
zoom out to a cool objective view, informed by historical insight,
but they also chart intimate relationships and love that have the
power to alter not just the poet’s view but perhaps even the world
itself: "the mountains blush / under the glint / in your eye."
