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Cedar Sigo's fourth collection evoke ancestors and mentors in ways that speak to the devotional practice of writing itself.
List of contents
Table of ContentsOn Distortion
Arsenal 4
Secrets of the Inner Mind
November 19, 2016
Microtonal Concertape
On the Way
Cold Valley
Mirror Box (Dissolved)
First Love
Six Lines Missing
The Studio
Light unburied, unchained
Twilight of the Gods
Symbol on a Box Lid
Liquid Crystals
All This Time
Snow Effect
Like Someone in Love
Notes on Nicolas Poussin
The Balloon is Ascending
Struggle Itself
Old Money
We are the Ancestors
The Prisoner's Song
Man Drowning with Flowers
Starting from Old Man House (What did you learn here?)
Plumes from a Tearoom in Lebanon, New Jersey
Disguised Sonnet (on Style)
The Material Field
Surface Waves
Complete Cube
Cancel Culture (The Bardo)
Lectures from the Earth
Sappho
Summer Triptych
Double Vision
Instructions
Solarium
Harry Callahan Poem
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
Royals (Wave Books, 2017), which was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry,
Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014);
Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010);
Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008); two editions of
Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005); and most recently, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series book
Guard the Mysteries (Wave Books, 2021). He has taught workshops at St. Mary's College, Naropa University and University Press Books. He is currently a mentor in the low residency MFA program at The Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Lofall, Washington.
Summary
Cedar Sigo’s fourth collection evoke ancestors and mentors in ways that speak to the devotional practice of writing itself.
Foreword
- 1,500 copies
- E-galley distribution through targeted emails and Edelweiss. Print review copy mailing to major book reviews, literary journals, and library buyers' guides.
- Author interview pitches.
- Social media campaign.
- Outreach to independent booksellers.
- Outreach to poetry and related literary organizations.
- Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author events.
- Display at conferences and bookfairs.
- Co-op available
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Cedar Sigo is a Frank O’Hara for the 21st century: witty, erudite, serious, with a terrific ear & eye for the minutest details, at home in the world of the arts.
—Ron Silliman
