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Book Synopsis"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 ContentsGreen 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
