Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling

by Sarah Riggs

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

Sarah Riggs is the author of five books of poetry in English: Waterwork (2007), Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (2007), 60 Textos (2010), Autobiography of Envelopes (2012), and Pomme & Granite (2015). She has translated and co-translated six books of contemporary French poetry into English, including most recently Oscarine Bosquet’s Present Participle and Etel Adnan’s Time. Sarah Riggs lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Reviews

[Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really get this book. So much so I'm teetering on uncanniness, so there am I. Chain... is a re-re-re work. It puts forth multiple iterations of a primary text. The primary text is like a wallpaper that is painted on and over and cut out into little shapes. Its an arrangement that is thoughtful and lyric, but also a little exhausting (this I also get, I'm there and I'm exhausted too). While I wouldn't write it, I'm thinking it as I'm reading and we're like one person (the book and I) formulating a thing in its thingness: casting it, netting it, overlooking it, et cetera it.