Publisher's Synopsis
- Cedar Sigo is an established poet, with eight books and pamphlets of poetry. His book Language Arts (Wave, 2014), received positive praise from Publishers Weekly, who called it "arresting."
- Cedar grew up on the Suquamish reservation and is actively involved in the community of native poets, critics, and teachers. He is a mentor at the Institute for American Indian Arts and has collaborated with other native poets on a variety of publishing and series.
- Sigo was a coeditor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (also edited by poet laureate Joy Harjo), which is on Oprah's booklist and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
- We expect that this book will particularly interest to Native Nations and LGBTQ+ audiences. However, these poems also will be of interest to a general poetry audience, as Cedar is connected to the experimental poetry and arts community nationally after many years in the San Francisco poetry community.
- Cedar is publishing his lecture book Guard the Mysteries in June, so we expect cross-promotion of both titles as the timing will increase visibility.
- In recent years, Cedar has been an instructor at the Naropa Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where in 1995 he was awarded a scholarship to study writing. He studied with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger, among other poets.
