Poetry. The poems of RED ARCADIA present a jittery,
spasmodic--often obscured--series of moving x-ray images of
contemporary culture in its frenetic contradictions, its
self-destructiveness, and sometimes in its moments of fractured
sublimity; a wobbly digicam portrait of the bewildered, mournful,
and sometimes bemused subject caught in the rush of sounds and
images, scrabbling through the levels of the city's
palimpset/midden, checking his watch for the arrival of some heroic
Captain Modernism."These sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued poems register
damage, reading commodities or movies for us, out there in shopping
malls or imaginary museums. They resolutely think through the
world, half-scratched mordant footnotes to our political realities.
They offer small consolation. This neatly organized book presents a
poetry of ideas, then, but concocted by an intelligence unusually
passionate, raw nerve-endings tingling with 57 varieties of ersatz.
Mark Scroggins's ventriloquy--knowing, ironical, satirical--is the
book's singular pleasure, its delicate likeness chiming in our ears
with delight."--Robert Sheppard"Mark Scroggins practices a
literature of contained excess, drawn from the welter of experience
and its reflexive twin, theory. His poetry combines Benjaminian and
Zukofskyan author functions, disclosing the cultural logics of
distributed financialization through the method of materialist
inversion. As it turns out, these condensed surfaces are identical
to the ages' insights insofar as we could ever hope to live them.
Consonantal lushness, vocalic variation, beautiful lineation,
sublime contradiction are the predominant features of Scroggins's
perverse constructivism. Poetry is thereby redeemed in its damaged
finality."--Barrett Watten
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