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Goodbye Letter

Goodbye Letter

Sigler, Jeremy
Kulok, Barney

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0578576910
ISBN13: 9780578576916
Publisher: Hunters Point Press
Published: Sep 29 2020
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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