Royals

Cedar Sigo grew up on the Suquamish reservation, outside of Seattle. We plan on sending copies of Royals to bookstores and Native American culture centers on the West Coast. Sigo has strong connections to poets all over the country. We will generate word-of-mouth publicity for Royals by sending out complimentary copies to established poets who know him. San Francisco has a thriving population of poetry readers. We will target bookstores in California, and in San Francisco in particular, such as City Lights. We will also promote the book to the poets and communities centered around the Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO, as well as those around New York institutions such as the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church and the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd St. Y. Review copies and pitches will be sent to print and online venues with dedicated poetry coverage, like The Rumpus, The Volta, Poetry, BOMB, and trades such as Publishers Weekly. Co-op available

Poems that energetically celebrate the pleasures of writing and the romance of being a poet."One finishes a poem feeling as though they have taken part in a singular event that can be returned and mined again and again without exhausting the kernel of mystery around which each poem swirls." —BOMB Cedar Sigo's fourth collection restlessly enacts the pleasures of writing. With a mix of condensed, syllabic poems and longer serial pieces, and with many poems addressed to other poets, Sigo explores the romance of being a poet while also drawing on the color and symmetries of the visual arts of his Native American identity. twin angels at the impasse stripping wire out from the earth bolts of thunder pealed from under the falls stones thrown (from very high) to form a ziggurat an hourglass I almost forgot to intone Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals, Language Arts, Stranger in Town, Expensive Magic, and two editions of Selected Writings.