Goodbye Letter (Paperback)

Paperback. Concrete and permutational poems celebrating a serene atrophy of language, from the author of My VibeIn 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 poets speaking heart. Siglers newest collection may be seen as a field guide to a poets last gasp. Concrete and permutational poems celebrating a serene atrophy of language, from the author of IMy Vibe/I Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…