All This Time - Softcover

Sigo, Cedar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1950268462 ISBN 13: 9781950268467

Publisher: Wave Books, 2021

Synopsis

The newest 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.

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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.

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Solarium

Uranium tinged

black opal like truth

We demand the end

of money as poetry

demands unemployment

Always in deference

to the received, freakish

over imagined conduct

(nightmare alleyway)

it’s the signature tick

the demon guardian

you must slide

past with your

tongue (that morphs

as you age) sometimes

writing is waiting for

a panel of clouded

glass to come clean

Did I dream Sophie

Tauber-Arp as

a silhouette

sweeping a pile

of Swiss Francs?

I remember asking workers

to remove the microphone

from the round room

(big mistake)

which the gallery

may have taken

as a ‘traditional’

choice, colossal

visions twitch

imposing variation

in rhythm

the forest

through the city

and back

What if I am

already dead

calm and feeling

undivided?

I will have to begin

to make art

in the old ways

to even fake

at breaking even

attempt to form

daylight

or sing to myself

and choose

to retrace it

old threads

of yellow

varnished

blown

to the edge

of a white

ravine.

the scene

is such

The wall

itself

is torn

Edition details

• Publisher: Wave Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1950268462
• ISBN 13: 9781950268467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112