@markscroggins.bsky.social
Poet, biographer, critic—bear of very little brain, troubled by long words. Rudimentary bass player. Pre-raphaelite wannabe. Aesthete, always.
Today: John Crowley, Love and Sleep (Bantam, 1997)
30.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: Basil Bunting, Briggflatts (Bloodaxe, 2009)
29.10.2025 01:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: Linda Donn: Freud and Jung: Years of Friendship, Years of Loss (Scribner’s, 1988)
21.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: Basil Bunting, Complete Poems (New Directions, 2000)
16.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
It reeks of weed outside the Port Authority
Today: A. L. Nielsen, Hard Gospel (BlazeVox Books, 2025)
16.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: John Peck, Collected Shorter Poem (TriQuarterly/ Northwestern UP, 2004)
13.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: Lorine Niedecker, Collected Work, ed. Jenny Penberthy (U California P, 2002)
13.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I did—and owe you an email—thank you—you’re still writing very good poems
27.09.2025 05:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Today: Jay Sherry, Carl Gustav Jung: Avant-Garde Conservative (Palgrave, 2010)
27.09.2025 04:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I was asked by @gqmagazine.bsky.social to write a little bit about just going bald in the age of widespread head-shaving and affordable, believable hair transplants...so I did!
26.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 666 🔁 78 💬 49 📌 73Today: George Oppen, New Collected Poems (New Directions, 2002)
23.09.2025 15:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Seems young to me. In poet years I am long dead.
17.09.2025 18:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Today I wrote and sent off a blurb I had been agonizing over for weeks, and revised an introduction that I had agonized over for months. And both of them are okay.
16.09.2025 00:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: John Crowley, Ægypt (Bantam, 1987)
14.09.2025 14:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: Jen Bergen, Nets (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004)
12.09.2025 19:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Today: Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (Del Rey, 1978)
31.08.2025 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: CG Jung, The Black Books, vol. 4, Ed. Sonu Shamdasani (Norton, 2020)
29.08.2025 19:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Coming soon!
25.08.2025 23:07 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Today: Susanne Dyckman and Elizabeth Robinson, Rendered Paradise (Apogee Press, 2024)
19.08.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: CG Jung, The Black Books, vol. 3, Ed. Sonu Shamdasani (Norton, 2020)
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Today: Patrick Pritchett, Brief Mercy of This Life (The Bodily Press, 2025)
12.08.2025 16:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: Denise Levertov, The Sorrow Dance (New Directions, 1967)
12.08.2025 04:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: The Portable Jung, Ed. Joseph Campbell (Penguin, 1971)
12.08.2025 02:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: CG Jung, The Black Books, vol. 2, Ed. Sonu Shamdasani (Norton, 2000)
09.08.2025 18:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today: Sarah Rosenthal, sitings (a+bend chapbook, 2000)
06.08.2025 16:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Catallus 70 Newly say dickered my love air my own would marry me all whom but me, none see say Jupiter if she petted. Dickered: said my love air could be o could dickered a man too in wind o wet rapid a scribble reported in water Translated from the Latin by Louis Zukofsky
Newly say dickered my love air my own would marry me all
- Catallus 70 translated by Louis Zukofsky
