{"product_id":"zion-offramp-51-100-asemic-dub-paperback","title":"ZION OFFRAMP 51-100 (asemic dub) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Scroggins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003easemic dub\u003c\/em\u003e-so Mark Scroggins subtitles \u003cem\u003eZion Offramp 51-100\u003c\/em\u003e. Asemic language wants to say the unsayable, can't be deciphered with any certainty. The reader can only wonder, imagine, examine the choices the text proposes. To dub is to echo, to alter, to name, to arm. \u003cem\u003easemic dub\u003c\/em\u003e, then. To name or imagine into being? To echo or rework, remake what happens? To arm the word, to make it mean? To baptize with language-is that substance or spirit? Scroggins is a Deacon of the heretical faith we call the world, a celebrant of its arcane and familiar particulars, its \u003cem\u003eheart- sunk, guarded privacies\u003c\/em\u003e. \"Deacon\" from the Greek, meaning servant, messenger, minister. On his altar lie all the world's tales and trash, its wounds and laws, lullabies and betrayals, plagues, pleasures, prophecies, memories, original sins, mutable histories, breathtaking weather, \u003cem\u003evagrant blossoms\u003c\/em\u003e, birds and insects, \u003cem\u003esecrets in flames ... ruining the work of time\u003c\/em\u003e. Ruining time itself, it seems, till we are utterly here. Only, where is here? Scroggins shows us how, though we are lost, benighted knights, we can read, think and feel our way along. And we can sing. \u003cem\u003eThe words step forward, upright and healthy: \/ puella, girl; agricola, farmer; filia, \/ daughter. Simple, musical, sensuous. \u003c\/em\u003eI want to say, real. But not simple, not really. \u003cem\u003eLanguage like a subtle complex \/ tapestry Morris Persian labyrinthine daedalian. \u003c\/em\u003eDeacon Scroggins reminds us that words have the power to suffer for us, to bless and redeem us. What has been \u003cem\u003espoken in darkness \/ shall be published in the light\u003c\/em\u003e. Strangely, the book seems not to end, not because Scroggins has promised a third volume of \u003cem\u003eZion Offramp\u003c\/em\u003e, but because the poem feels magically contiguous with the world. It just keeps going. \u003cem\u003eSomething happened\u003c\/em\u003e, something is happening, something may happen next, \u003cem\u003ea giant story \/ that tells all the stories the book \/ didn't tell. An endless book, spilling \/ over\u003c\/em\u003e, the mysterious, recurring \u003cem\u003egirl in her room ... already a woman ... passing under the Bridge of Sighs. \u003c\/em\u003e-Billie Chernicoff \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53125773426995,"sku":"9781968422035","price":30.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/BLLlX3njZ99781968422035.webp?v=1773260287","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/zion-offramp-51-100-asemic-dub-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}