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This is the second coming of Cedar Sigo's Selected
Writings in a new expanded edition bound to dig a bi-coastal
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. Originally
released in the spring of 2003, the first edition of Sigo's book
quickly sold out; the present edition adds a number of new poems
to the surviving text and comes sheathed in a freshly offset & letterpressed
cover designed by Jeremy Mickel.
Cedar Sigo was born in 1978. He studied at Naropa University's
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, before moving to
San Francisco in 1999. Cedar is the author of Goodnight Nurse (Angry Dog Press). His poems have appeared in The
Poker, Yolanda Pipeline's Magazine, Shampoo, RealPoetik, Puppy
Flowers, Suspect
Thoughts, 6x6, and New York Nights, among other journals. Forthcoming
is a book of collaborations, Deathrace V.S.O.P. Some of his collaborations
with Micah Ballard are published in the new UDP chapbook Evangeline
Downs. Cedar lives in San Francisco, where he is the editor of
Old Gold Press.
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"Cedar has added ten new poems to the original four
of that manuscript, along with a slight change in one of
the sections of the long poem "O Twist No Inferno." As
I've been reading through the book, I love how the additional
poems provide a new context for the first four. I get the
sensation of familiar music being played through new instruments,
remixed or extended versions of favorite songs. Like many
poets I admire, Cedar is a subtle DJ who uses repetition
and slight variations on lines to amplify his sound.
Rereading "O Twist No Inferno" two years later,
I see it as an ambitious and effective long piece. [...]
There's a hardness to Cedar's lines and stanzas that signals
a serious dedication to poetry and her affiliates. [...]
Much like Juan Sánchez Peláez did in his final
collection, Aire sobre el aire (1989), Cedar accomplishes
a great deal with only 14 poems. "O Twist No Inferno"'s
epic allusions spread throughout the entire collection, allowing
individual lines to serve as chapters, books within the book.
—Guillermo Juan Parra in Venepoetics
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