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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872865365 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100628230 02 0872865363 03 9780872865365 15 9780872865365 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>City Lights Spotlight</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Stranger in Town</TitleText> 1 A01 Sigo, Cedar Cedar Sigo Born in 1978 on the Suquamish Indian Reservation in Washington State, Cedar Sigo studied at the Naropa Institute with Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger, and Allen Ginsberg, among others. His first book, Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003), was reprinted in a revised edition in 2005. A writer on art, literature, and film, Sigo has collaborated with many visual artists and recently blogged for SFMOMA's Open Space. In June 2009, he gave a reading at New York's P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in conjunction with its Kenneth Anger retrospective. 01 eng 100 00 100 03 20 cedar sigo;poetry;queer 24 Internet CL Hierarchy California Writers 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 24 Internet CL Hierarchy San Francisco Literature & History 01 Stranger in Town is the much-anticipated second collection by San Francisco poet Cedar Sigo. Reflecting queer identity while eschewing clichéd aesthetics, Stranger exudes an urban mysticism redolent of the SF Renaissance—particularly John Wieners—as it collages the fragmented experience of contemporary culture. Among its highlights are the sublime long poem, "Music for Torching," written in collaboration with Nathan Berlinguette and Will Yackulic, the translation of "Villon," the biographical "Notes on Joan Crawford," and prose meditations on poetry like "The Sun" and "The Emerald Tablet." "It's a pleasure to curl up with and be challenged by [Sigo's poetry], driven to push one's living further. In this new century, there is without doubt further territory for poetry to enter into, and Sigo embraces what is currently available and holds out an offering for the future." —Patrick Dunagan "The poems of Stranger in Town have an elegant lyric energy that attracts attention. The 'I' is not sentimentally loving its kitten, but clear in city light and night . . . a sort of Isherwood/Wieners, literate and humorous, with a Lunch Poems gaze. And 'The Sun' is one of the clearest statements of a poetics since 'Personism.' One of the now-rare pleasures of poetry is looking forward to more by a writer: I do so for Cedar Sigo." —Tom Raworth "In Stranger in Town, carefully placed exclamation points reveal the contents of a boyhood closet. A shock of capital letters pay homage to magicians Spicer, Wieners, and Rimbaud. An ambling line conjures Charles Olson done up in a little bit of drag. Themes of love, ecstasy, darkness, and light are wrestled away from sentimental tourists and into the arms of Cedar Sigo, resident genius of this rare, honest romance." —Lisa Jarnot "A reality made of poetry is all one could ask for, and here it is-created of skillful, elegant, lyric moments and lines. A door opens to a light, fluent room, where narratives of 'urban mysticism' are pursued. An ear moves from 'professional music' to the sound of melting snow. Poems that breathe with a forthright intimacy." —Joanne Kyger 02 Redolent of Wieners, Whalen, and Lamantia, Stranger in Town is the second coming of the SF Renaissance. 08 "Some of Sigo's lines speak to the way in which the poet’s mouth functions like a vessel for shattering." HTMLGIANT 08 "Sigo, whose work is in conversation with poets such as Wieners, Jack Spicer, and Eileen Myles, as well as an array of visual artists and musicians, succeeds in creating an intertextual collection that is as rich as the many sources of inspiration from which it draws."--Bethany Prosseda Rain Taxi 08 "...The cumulative effect of Sigo's approach to spacing, image, and meaning invest the work with an impressive sense of economy and compression...but the real magic is that Stranger in Town not only draws out our willingness to collaborate with the page: it lets us find ourselves somewhere we've never been until it is time to reappear." —Andrew Najberg Drunken Boat 08 "Sigo's poems are their own. They blend effortless hipness with a roving intelligence attracted to urbanity, longing, glamour, isolation, romance, accident, and collision. The net result of the various aspects of Sigo’s poems is a poetics of flux that exists in the past as much as present and the future, but belongs to none of the above. The poems seem at once contemporary and antiquated, totally alien and uncannily familiar, so that they operate with a realm of uncertainty where any movement the poem makes is charged with potential." BOMB 08 "Queer identity, love, and city landscapes serve as themes of the collection, and Sigo--with wit and energy--pays homage to heroes Jack Spicer, John Wieners, and Arthur Rimbaud. The 'I' in these poems is direct, youthful, and at times ecstatic." 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