forage acanthus

Author: Mark Scroggins

Publisher: The Bodily Press (2024)

forage acanthus comprises two sections, 112 and 119, of this ever-shifting project. These poems, written in strictly patterned stanzas of word-count lines, lexically recursive and syntactically indeterminate, at times court sheer abstraction. But simultaneously they closely chart tides and flows of affect, open themselves to the contingencies of welcome happenstance and forbidding history, and throughout sound a plangent, seductive, if atonal music.