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This book was selected by Iain Sinclair to be one of his Christmas recommendations for 2007: "Nostalgia for Unknown Cities by the poet Ken Edwards (Reality Street) is the wild card: hypnagogic derangement as the urban dream dissolves before our eyes." More details here.

item9Sarah Riggs
chain of minuscule decisions in the form of a feeling

 

A beautiful permutational poem sequence by a US poet based in Paris. A basic text is transformed in various ways to make manifest all its various meanings and resonances. This is Sarah's first UK publication.

 

"The compositional moves are purely contemporary, but the dance is an ancient one, of identity and difference, revelation and concealment." - Michael Palmer

 

"When Sarah Riggs says the preposition is the soul I believe her entirely and I’m glad about it. She has a fierce way of renovating my desire to differentiate." - Lisa Robertson

 

Sarahphoto1aSarah Riggs lives in Paris and is a poet, translator, and visual artist with three other volumes of poetry: Waterwork (Chax Press, USA), 28 télégrammes and 60 textos (éditions de l'Attente, tr. Françoise Valéry, France). She is also the author of Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, and O'Hara, published by Routledge in 2002. The installation of her drawings, Isibilités, in collaboration with sound, video and cuisine, took place at the galerie éof in autumn 2007. Member of Double Change, and director of Tamaas, she has taught at Columbia University in Paris, and with Omar Berrada has translated Marie Borel's Wolftrot (La Presse, 2006). Forthcoming in 2008 are her translations of Isabelle Garron, Face Before Against (Litmus) and Ryoko Sekiguchi Two Markets, Once Again (Post Apollo).

 

 

2007, 978-1-874400-37-0, price £7.50, 60pp

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