Marc Vincenz proposes, through multiple forms and genres, a paradoxical and parodic archaeology of the future. Irønclad displays verbal and graphic artifacts which serve as evidence of time's entanglement in a 'future present.' Conducting the reader through strata of co(s)mic imagination, Vincenz revises Pound's dictum 'make it new' to one more suited to a nonlinear vision of history: 'make it mysterious, archaic, infinite.' With wickedly subversive wit, the poet excavates the hole, the null set, at the center of meaning, there to discover the very source of invention.
