All This Time

by Cedar Sigo Narrated by Cedar Sigo

Overview

This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.

This collection from Cedar Sigo, All This Time, pays homage to artistic influences that have shaped his poetic practices. Lyrical and haunted, these poems call attention to the experience of living as an embodiment of art, reminding the reader that poetry is like an open-air structure; it is open to all who are curious enough to welcome everything in.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

[His] poems seem at once contemporary and antiquated, totally alien and uncannily familiar, so that they operate with a realm of uncertainty where any movement the poem makes is charged with potential.
—Ben Mirov, BOMBlog

Sigo, whose work is in conversation with poets such as Wieners, Jack Spicer, and Eileen Myles, as well as an array of visual artists and musicians, succeeds in creating an intertextual collection that is as rich as the many sources of inspiration from which it draws.
—Bethany Prosseda, Rain Taxi

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

Product Details

BN ID:	2940194705580
Publisher:	Wave Books
Publication date:	02/15/2025
Edition description:	Unabridged

Read an Excerpt

First Love

for Kevin Opstedal

I’ve never lived in New York

but I died there once while

visiting. Those empty river bed, organ

blues (whose chords I never knew)

if the poems are dated surely

she is charting a breakthrough, “large

black butterflies like birds” and “the

sun is a star” a form of trust plus

reintroduction to the act, dead heat

and playing it off, killing time

in Isle de Mujeres…of quickly

drawn and dispelled passage, the shadow

of the board behind the door

I signed once as Miss Crane,

once as Miss Valdez, jerked awake

the Atlantic Ocean had died and

folded headlong—disappeared

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