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Sir
Who is Sir? A pivot of language for an old man with a life of curious stories; a ghost, a mirage, a woman in Turkey. And a slice of the contemporary with its sickness, aging, death, its wars and commodities. HR Hegnauer has created an epistolary identity of engaged and hybridized increments from her own youthful living and details of others and their entwined poetries and presences. It is a highly performative text of depth, mind grammar, and beautiful gesture, inhabited by vivid characters and voices that change and charge the room. Bravo!
— Anne Waldman
— Anne Waldman
- GenresPoetry
96 pages, Paperback
First published July 15, 2013
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November 25, 2025
Ghost / memory / words / and / and
July 16, 2019
Sweet, raw, tender, vulnerable and emotional; HR reminds me of Fredrik Backman in all the best ways. Especially how she writes of love and relationships through the lens of every day moments.
August 26, 2023
In 2011 or so, I had the good fortune to hear H.R. recite large portions of Sir at Naropa. It was some of the most transportative, affecting, intense-yet-gentle speech (reminiscence, dedication) I've ever encountered in the context of poetry-as-performance. This book is an epistolary, elegiac treatise on the true function, the pure act of grammar in our lives. Hegnauer makes the strange familiar in a most remarkable way.
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