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Selected Writings: Cedar Sigo

Literature & Fiction

Sigo, Cedar

Poetry

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<p>Poetry. "Jen Bervin has reimagined Shakespeare as our true contemporary. Her little poems sing"—Paul Auster. In NETS, poet and artist Jen Bervin strips Shakespeare's sonnets "bare to the nets," chiseling away at the familiar lines to reveal surprising new poems, while pointing obliquely at the unavoidably intertextual ground of writing. Using visual compositional strategies as effectively as verbal ones, Bervin allows the discarded text to remain on the page as a ghostly presence, while she highlights the marginal line-numbers that allude to the sonnets' canonization.</p>

Nets

Bervin, Jen

<p>Poetry. Translated from the Russian by Philip Meteres and Tatiana Tulchinsky. A founding proponent of Moscow Conceptualism, Lev Rubinstein, born in 1941, is one of Russia's most well-known contemporary poets. His work, mostly conceived as a series of index cards, was circulated through samizdat and underground readings until the late 1980's, when, along with Dmitri Prigov, he was a contributor to Delo, the first aboveground collection of this group's poetic output. Several of his poems have appeared in American literary magazines, and he currently writes a regular column on cultural affairs in a prominent Russian weekly. This collection represents the wide range of his index-card poetry and hopes to reach the contemporary audience that Mr. Rubinstein doubtlessly deserves.</p>

Catalogue of Comedic Novelties

Rubinstein, Lev

Philip Metres

Tatiana Tulchinsky

History & Criticism

Fifty Drops of Blood

Prigov, D.

MATTISON, Christopher

Afield

Scott Shibuya Brown

N.H. Pritchard (born 1939) was one of the few black practitioners of the concrete poetry movement, and his book The Matrix is one of just a few books of concrete poetry to have been published by a major American publishing house. Originally published in 1970 by Doubleday, The Matrix was given little support in its time, and Pritchard’s work was largely ignored or passed over by the international concrete poetry movement. However, The Matrix remains a cherished item for fans of poetry due to its unique composition and difficult yet rewarding poetics. Forcing the reader to straddle the line between reading and viewing, The Matrix, now back in print in a new edition, features visual poems that predate the work of some of the Language poets, including words that are exploded into their individual letters and columns of text that ride the edge of the page.

The Matrix: Poems 1960-1970

Pritchard, N.

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.

Selected Writings, 2nd Revised Edition

Poetry. "BIRD & FOREST is clear, beautiful writing. There is a simple quality of the well-told-tale to these fractured fables. This a patient, wise and hilarious work whose intimate tone insinuates itself into your psyche only to have its way with you and then suddenly vanish. What more could you want?"--Laura Moriarty. Brent Cunningham's work has appeared in CHAIN, LIPSTICK ELEVEN, Radical Society, KENNING, Encyclopedia, and elsewhere.

Bird & Forest

Cunningham, Brent

Poetry. "Eugene Ostashevsky combines elements of the Russian Absurdists with a very contemporary and very American performance idiom. The result is a poetry at once witty, incantatory and slyly subversive. And a great, careening ride..."--Michael Palmer. "Eugene Ostashevsky's Iterature goes out of its way not to be too careful, reveling in off-rhyme, visual rhyme, and any other method of linguistic play that might push the poet's language to the border of nonsense--or worse, incompetence. [...] A subterranean non-English grammar inform[s] his choices. [...] Not quite defeatist, he turns a wry, self-deprecating eye on everything and goes out of his way to dispel gravity"--Brian Kim Stefans in The Boston Review.

ITERATURE (Eastern European Poets Series, 10)

Ostashevsky, Eugene

United States

Poetry. AFTER YOU, DEAREST LANGUAGE is an alphabetical index and linguistic navigation of symbols and their meanings. Conceived as a sort of hypertext in book form, it connects the visual and the verbal through personal narratives of real, surreal, urban, hyper-urban and bucolic spaces. "This linguistic navigation, much like "Barthes" by Barthes and Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Words", articulates one's (often inarticulate, and yes, mysterious) interior and its relationship to exteriority"--Claudia Milian. "A subtle and beautifully-crafted exploration of a personal language--but clothed in song, clothed in the visionary power of poetry. Language as a method against evil..."--Guillermo Juan Parra. Marisol Limon Martinez is a visual artist. She lives in New York.

After You, Dearest Language

Martinez, Marisol

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