Connie Scozzaro

Marnie Connie Scozzaro

Poetry. MARNIE is the lyric remainder of being entirely obliterated and prodigiously disorientated across England and elsewhere. As such this poem is an experiment in different forms and genres interrupted and mismanaged, a deranged mélange of short epic and pastoral and a biopsy of the confessional form. Ultimately, Scozzaro's poem ventures: as the world swerves violently to the right, how does lyric respond to harm both at home and away? MARNIE claims to be an exposé that reveals nothing, but really it reveals everything and shapes this everything into a wondrous polyphony. Few books are more joyous to read and even fewer are less predictable. We live in a time where poetry is presumed to have a stable subject and a righteous politics, a time when poems more often lecture than complicate. If you like your poetry this way, maybe don't bother with this book.--Juliana Spahr