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Author: Sarah Riggs

Sarah Riggs is the author of six books of poetry including EAVESDROP (Chax Press, 2020), Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (Reality Street Editions, 2007), 60 TEXTOS (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ENVELOPES (Burning Deck, 2012), WATERWORK (Chax Press, 2007), and POMME & GRANITE (1913 Press, 2015). Her essays were published as Word Sightings (2002). She has translated six poetry books from French including the prize-winning TIME (2019) by Etel Adnan. She is also a filmmaker, artist, and podcaster of "Invitation to the Species." She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Omar Berrada and their two daughters. www.sarahriggs.org

60 Textos
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60 Textos

Ugly Duckling Presse

Poetry. A companion volume to Riggs's books 28 Telegrams, 43 Post-Its and 38 Instant Messages, 60 TEXTOS continues the poet's investigation into the ways affect and technology co-exist. "Texto" is French for "text message," and these stark, uncanny,...

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Eavesdrop
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Eavesdrop

Chax Press

Poetry. Women's Studies. Environmental Studies. "If in Sarah Riggs' POMME & GRANITE, language shimmers as register of pure light, EAVESDROP's iridescence signs the stakes of dance. Each sequence, in deploying fresh ways to balance language differenc...

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The Nerve Epistle
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The Nerve Epistle

Roof Books

As nerves animate the territory within and between bodies, a shuttle is thrown from one hand to another. These messages are near and real, firing across spaces felt as geographical distance and visionary kinship. Sarah Riggs’ epistles catch the slan...

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Pomme & Granite
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Pomme & Granite

1913 Press

Poetry. "Exquisite reach, this sweet sonneter high in our ear. The poems rise even when the 'the phone calls you back.' These six suites are a stunning gambol withal; what pleasure in Riggs's readerly intelligence, her rock-solid pleasure in the pos...

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Waterwork
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Waterwork

Chax Press

Poetry. "In five stunning sequences, Sarah Riggs has created a poetics of elastic migrations that imagines the world as clusters, skeins, and motions whose innate peril is miraculously saved in hte act of naming: 'each name for a thing seems intent ...

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