These moving poems map the internal geographies of desire and memory. The 19 poems in Amie Siegel's first collection were composed during her extended stays in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and the American Southwest. They evoke the ways we derive meaning from our contact with other places and demonstrate the power of language both to construct and to dematerialize what it describes.
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Amie Siegel is a writer and filmmaker whose films and videos have been shown in museums and festivals across the country. She was born in Chicago and is a graduate of Bard College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Waking Life is her first collection of poems.
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Amie Siegel-creative genius,
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This book of poems is wonderful in every way. When was the last time you read someone with real talent? Well, look no further. Amie Siegel is the real thing. The use of words, the connections she makes-this is a fresh approach. Her work is challenging, thought provoking, and moving. If you get a chance to see her films, do so! Amie is a creative genius!!-Eric Kolkey
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A whole new way of talking,
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One of the most remarkable books of verse in a long while; out of nowhere this poet appears and challenges conventions of meaning and narration. She works with large phrases, and marshalls them with the austere disjunctions of Language Poetry -- but all the while an intense discourse is going on, not trivialized by glib transfer of emotions or by narrative frames. Instead, the work seems to renew, refresh. Imagine abstract language that has the impact of imagery and you get some of the flavor of this book. Every poem in the collection speaks into human space -- but never with condescension or phony lyricsim. Carefully, sentence by sentence, exploring all sorts of pause and interruption, Siegel builds up an intricate and unforgettable experience-in-hearing.
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Fantastic! Truly amazing sums it up!,
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Every poem moved me so much
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
I am always arriving. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Footprint Cambodia Handbook by John Colet in Back Matter
- Chain 11: Public Forms by Juliana Spahr on page 355
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