DescriptionAtari Arcadia is a collection of poems that interrogates punk poetics, art-making, and hybrid identity by indulging in speculation and lyrical impulse. Dressed in the garb of the filthy, fiery, and fast punk aesthetic from which it was grown, this collection uses self-portraiture, ekphrasis, and ars poetica interrogation to navigate the complexities of identity, knowledge, and place without relegating those complexities to footnotes in metanarratives. Furthermore, it attempts to understand how our influences, the art we hold dear, has shaped us, our sense-making, and how we go through the world. By interrogating language and creation of the art-object through a lens comprised of everything from The Blood Brothers to The Departed to the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, it attempts to embrace the grotesque, the fractured, and the fast as a means of making sense of the many ways influence, self, and meaning are constructed by us, about us, or for us, for better or for worse.