Living Must Bury [Paperback]

Josie Sigler (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1, 2010

"Living Must Bury is a powerhouse, a slaughterhouse, a cathouse-oracle of a first book. Josie Sigler's incantatory poems build in yawps of collage that carve out the shape of her poems' heart-puncturing hurt."—Alex Lemon

"What strange, archaic, 3-D prayer is this? A lucid palimpsest showing us where the gold is buried."—Rachel Zucker

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About the Author

Josie Sigler's poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Hayden's Ferry Review, Harpur Palate and others. Her fiction has been published in Water~Stone Review, Copper Nickel, and Silk Road; she was a 2007 finalist for The Iowa Award in Fiction. She's pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, but also writes about the several stranded Midwestern towns in which she grew and the Maine island she calls home.

Product Details

• Paperback: 63 pages
• Publisher: Fence Books; 1 edition (April 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934200360
• ISBN-13: 978-1934200360
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,933,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Josie Sigler's New Book of Poetry, February 9, 2011

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Living Must Bury surges with commanding images from grim to exalted. There's nothing traditional about this poetry: you have to give into the images and go with the emotions, not force an intellectual frame and yet it is deeply intellectual. This is an up and coming poet; watch her.