Siren of Atlantis
Siren of Atlantis
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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.
Cedar Sigo on writing SIREN OF ATLANTIS
Cedar Sigo reads titular poem from SIREN OF ATLANTIS -
Previous Praise
... these poems are remarkable, and deeply grounded, held in the hand as a bird might trust to light, while able to take wing at any moment.
Rob McLennan Blog
The poems in Cedar Sigo’s newest book, Siren of Atlantis (Wave Books, 2025), arrive like a ferry crossing in stormlight—rhythmic, flickering, full of veiled terrain. To leave land behind, even briefly, is a momentous act if you’re in the right mindset. Cedar’s poems show he’s always in that mindset—the one attuned to passage, to pattern, to poetic weather.
Simon Wolf, Poetry Northwest
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
...a clarity of pure ease of meditative thinking: a poetry that simply and beautifully is.
Rob McLennan Blog
Publication: April 2025
ISBN# 19798891060135 (7 x 9, 80pp, paperback)
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