Selected Writings

by Cedar Sigo

Poetry. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Finally The second coming of Cedar Sigo's SELECTED WRITINGS in a new expanded edition bound to dig a bicoastal poetic aqueduct with heartland tricklers. Sigo's work is most aptly compared to plumbing without the pipes: water flows in elegant designs through invisible walls at a touch. Cedar Sigo is the author of Goodnight Nurse. His poems have appeared in The Poker, Yolanda Pipeline's Magazine, New York Nights, among other journals. Forthcoming is a book of collaborations, Deathrace V.S.O.P.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published June 1, 2003

About the author

Born in 1978 on the Suquamish Indian Reservation in Washington State, Cedar Sigo studied at the Naropa Institute with Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger, and Allen Ginsberg, among others. His first book, Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003), was reprinted in a revised edition in 2005. A writer on art, literature, and film, Sigo has collaborated with many visual artists and recently blogged for SFMOMA's Open Space. In June 2009, he gave a reading at New York's P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in conjunction with its Kenneth Anger retrospective.

Reviews

[Rodney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sigo's special angle on the lyric, part New York School, part Wentley Wieners, makes the urban sexy & underground & interpersonal again, where I thought it'd gone all live/work.

[Alana · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Good Evening. You have reached
The Poirier residence. Everything
Arrived as sealed. The heart is
Wrapped up in clover floating
On the pool of the Washington
Monument. Don't worry Cedar,
Their stems will shiver and
Accept it because the water is there


I unpacked the suitcase early
Now I'm gone diving"

[Nick Pappas · Rating 1 out of 5]

Some nice images, but I'm not a huge poetry fan. Man, I must sound closed minded, but I didn't get it.