Siren of Atlantis

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ISBN-13: 9798891060135
Publisher: Wave Books
Publish Date: 04/15/2025
Dimensions: 8.74" L, 6.85" W, 0.32" H

Siren of Atlantis

byCedar Sigo

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Cedar Sigo’s latest poetry collection, Siren of Atlantis, is an introspective odyssey of remarkable poetic and personal resonance.

Here are poems that speak to Sigo’s profound experience of learning to write again after suffering a stroke in 2022. In creating this work, the author retraces poetic sources and reexamines style and tone, using a variety of compositional techniques to renegotiate what is at stake in the work. There is a joy in this collection, as Sigo allows us to bear witness to the rediscovery of language, imparting the work with a new and dramatic clarity, for the poet and ultimately for the reader as well.

  • Born in 1978 on the Suquamish Indian Reservation in Washington State, Cedar Sigo studied at the Naropa Institute with Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger, and Allen Ginsberg, among others. His first book, Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003), was reprinted in a revised edition in 2005. A writer on art, literature, and film, Sigo has collaborated with many visual artists and recently blogged for SFMOMA's Open Space. In June 2009, he gave a reading at New York's P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in conjunction with its Kenneth Anger retrospective.
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GUARD THE MYSTERIES
These influences are as present, as vital to the text, as the biographical details Sigo includes–about growing up on the Suquamish Reservation, about having a sexual awakening upon seeing a naked picture of Allen Ginsberg, about taking the ferry into Seattle and getting books and coffee in the University District.

Stefan Milne, Seattle Met


ALL THIS TIME
Words flow down the page like rain that might glaze William Carlos Williams' wheelbarrow.
Rain Taxi


Poems jitter down pages, wildly enjambed, or arrive in prose blocks, as if each were having a visual chat with some stylistic antecedent.
Stefan Milne, Seattle Met

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ISBN-10:
ISBN-13: 9798891060135
Publisher: Wave Books
Publish Date: 04/15/2025
Dimensions: 8.74" L, 6.85" W, 0.32" H
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