Siren of Atlantis

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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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GUARD THE MYSTERIES

These influences are as present, as vital to the text, as the biographical details Sigo includesabout growing up on the Suquamish Reservation, about having a sexual awakening upon seeing a naked picture of Allen Ginsberg, about taking the ferry into Seattle and getting books and coffee in the University District.
Stefan Milne,Seattle Met

ALL THIS TIME

Words flow down the page like rain that might glaze William Carlos Williams wheelbarrow.

Rain Taxi

Poems jitter down pages, wildly enjambed, or arrive in prose blocks, as if each were having a visual chat with some stylistic antecedent.

Stefan Milne, Seattle Met

...a clarity of pure ease of meditative thinking: a poetry that simply and beautifully is.

Rob McLennan Blog

ROYALS

Sigo thinks deeply about what art can actually do in the aesthetically and lyrically exhilarating poems of his fourth collection. . . . a book rich in references, consistently reminding readers of arts wild entanglements.

Publishers Weekly

LANGUAGE ARTS

Picture a lovers bedroom, sexily yet maddeningly littered with cigarettes and crumpled clothes, half-drunk coffee, wine glasses with lipstick around the rim, piles of papers, etc. A view of the mountains, or Paris, through the open window. The chaos is exciting, slightly overwhelming, and arousing. Being insideLanguage Artsis like this.

Ansley Clark,The Volta

Author Bio

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 allover the country including The University of Washington, Bard College, Washington University, Naropa University andThe Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Lofall, Washington.