Marc Nair (b. 1981)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED POEMS

• “The Secret Lives of Leaves”

• “Sapa”

• “Mas Selamat”

• “Past the gates of Socialism”

• “#6”, “I Dream of Medusa”, “Mother, My Other, Tongue”, “Plastic Ghosts #5” and “The Hero’s Journey” from The Earth in our Bones (2023)

5. SELECTED VIDEOS

6. TRACK CHANGES: “THE UNCERTAINTY OF EMOTION”

SELECTED POEMS

Past the gates of Socialism

after Spomenik #19

Think of this
as statuary: a silent Trojan with
no means of language
no face to venerate
no answer to the pillage
beneath its lonely outpost

listening to a sledgehammer
of scavengers scaling the hill at dusk
with their haul of scrap matériel
from #1 through #18

Underneath the old battlements
a vigil hums from
bones of old rifles and courage
as evening trembles and
this grandeur turns like an empty
doorway

or is this an ark grounded
after escape,
a forgotten blessing,
a haunting into wilderness

by Marc Nair
from Spomenik (2016)

SELECTED POEMS: “I Dream of Medusa” >