Goodbye letter / Jeremy Sigler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sigler, Jeremy, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual poetry, American.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Long Island City, NY : Hunters Point Press, [2020]

Summary:

Concrete and permutational poems celebrating a serene atrophy of language, from the author of My Vibe. In his latest collection, Goodbye Letter, New York-based poet Jeremy Sigler (born 1968) deconstructs his very will to write, as he articulates, verbally and graphically, the implied obsolescence of language itself. The book feels less like a proper literary work (a book of poetry) and more like a manual for poetic survival. One poem reads like some sort of linguistic code that manages to murmur "it is what it is"; another is more classically "concrete," reflecting on typewriter and pattern poems of past centuries; and another consists of a complete signature of unmarked blank pages (they await being torn out and curled up into a loose tube) as was the 19th-century prototype for the stethoscope, but used this time to listen in on the poet's "speaking" heart. Sigler's newest collection may be seen as a field guide to a poet's last gasp.

Contents:

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Grammaticals

Four Letters

Death and the Maiden

Podcast

Voice of a Generation

Qwerty

Is As It Is It

Stethoscopoem

Is What It Is It

Adida

Phonemadrigal

Three Lines

Three Standard Stoppages

Ennui

MATH

Goodbye Letter.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

0578576910

9780578576916

OCLC:

1159573766

Publisher Number:

99986101403