Siren of Atlantis

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Cedar Sigo is a poet and member of the Suquamish Nation. He studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of endless books and pamphlets of poetry, including All This Time (Wave Books, 2021), 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 Siren of Atlantis (Wave Books, 2025). In 2022 he received a grants to artist’s award from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts He has taught all over the country including The University of Washington, Bard College, Washington University, Naropa University and The Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Lofall, Washington.

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"Cedar Sigo's latest poetry collection, Siren of Atlantis, is an introspective odyssey of remarkable poetic and personal resonance. Here are poems that speak to Sigo's profound experience of learning to write again after suffering a stroke in 2022. In creating this work, the author retraces poetic sources and reexamines style and tone, using a variety of compositional techniques to renegotiate what is at stake in the work. There is a joy in this collection, as Sigo allows us to bear witness to the rediscovery of language, imparting the work with a new and dramatic clarity, for the poet and ultimately for the reader as well"--

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Contents

Rayograph

Texting Spell

The Life of Sun Ra

Stranger (Full Text) #2

Star Jasmine

Saint of the Abyss

Mettle

House Sitting

Memorization Sonnet

Hotel François

Dreaming of Li Po

Psychic TV

The Vertical Room

The Art of Making Dances

Sand

A Scandal in Peril

The Endless Fragment

Historical Melodrama

A Spiral and a Star

Reliquary

Directional Field with Columns

The Last Nights

Nightfall

Meanwhile

Tetrachord Sonnet

Chatter in the Waiting Room

Papered Halo

Siren of Atlantis

Waving Amaryllis

Close-Knit Flower Sack

The Pursuit