"One finishes a poem feeling as though they have taken part in a singular event that can be returned and mined again and again without exhausting the kernel of mystery around which each poem swirls." -BOMB
Cedar Sigo's fourth collection restlessly enacts the pleasures of writing. With a mix of condensed, syllabic poems and longer serial pieces, and with many poems addressed to other poets, Sigo explores the romance of being a poet while also drawing on the color and symmetries of the visual arts of his Native American identity.
twin angels
at the impasse
stripping wire
out from
the earth
bolts of thunder pealed
from under the
falls
stones
thrown (from very high)
to form
a ziggurat
an hourglass
I almost forgot
to intone
Cedar Sigo
was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals, Language Arts, Stranger in Town, Expensive Magic, and two editions of Selected Writings.
Table of Contents:
Green Rainbow Song
Tomorrow Night
Suspended Sentence
Sensation
On Strings of Blue
THRONES
Gauntlet
After the Oracle
The Vision
Medallion
Like Stride
Whims
Ode for Nine Voices
Mornings in Mexico
Guns of the Trees
Photographing Theatre
Fever Dream
The Magic Mountain
Incision
Our Lives
Blue Moon
A Passage
The Wigwam
A Handbook of Poetic Forms
Panavision
Poems for Saints
Satin Glass
The Real Contents of a Street Poet’s Suitcase
Side Trips
Watching William Castle Writing
Setting Out Late
Portrait in Black
Smoke Flowers
Three Landscapes
Aquarelle
Crescent
Acknowledgments
About the Author :
Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, includingLanguage Arts(Wave Books, 2014),Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010),Expensive Magic(House Press, 2008), and two editions ofSelected Writings(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005). He is also the editor ofThere You Are, a collection of interviews with Joanne Kyger (Wave Books, 2017). He has taught workshops at St. Mary's College, Naropa University, and University Press Books. He lives in San Francisco
