Siren of Atlantis

Cedar Sigo

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Wave Books
23 July 2025

Poetry; Literary studies: poetry & poets

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.

By: Cedar Sigo
Imprint: Wave Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 177mm,
ISBN: 9798891060135
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 23 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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

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 and The Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Lofall, Washington.

Reviews for Siren of Atlantis

Previous praise GUARD THE MYSTERIES These influences are as present, as vital to the text, as the biographical details Sigo includes—about 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