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'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
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96Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781940696539 |
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Publisher: | Wave Books |
Publication date: | 09/05/2017 |
Pages: | 96 |
Product dimensions: | 7.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d) |