Description
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 to curl from its shelled meaning.' Places, histories, persons, myth and object, intimacy and incident, are precision shorelines of simultaneous apprehension and erasure. In this subtle and luminous first book, Sarah Riggs has engaged our most fundamental quandaries in a poetry that announces, in Stevens' phrase, 'a new knowledge of reality.'"—Ann Lauterbach
"[Riggs] turns her acute eye to contemporary culture as well as natural history and her ear to the subtle balances of rhythm and assonance. The result is a beautiful attention that illuminates nuance, making the everyday world more detailed and thus more grand."—Cole Swensen
Author Bio
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
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA