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Poems that energetically celebrate the pleasures of writing and the romance of being a poet.
List 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, including Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014), Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005). He is also the editor of There 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.
Summary
Poems that energetically celebrate the pleasures of writing and the romance of being a poet.
