Red Arcadia

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.