Winter Editions Book 9781959708124.

By Sarah Riggs

Sarah Riggs's eighth book of poems pulls from the momentum of Lyn Hejinian's My Life and Bernadette Mayer's Memory to create a survival manual for a Trump presidency and a family crisis. Riggs's book-length poetry cycle begins with 47-line poems (corresponding to the author's age) and breaks its form as it builds, riding on association and assonance. Lines seeks to turn colonial power & patriarchy on its head through the movements of the mind and the sanity of poetry. "Riggs's language games challenge the reader to explore a type of refractive logic; each daily poem becomes kaleidoscopic, a testament to the way Time stutters, collapses and expands." --J. MAE BARIZO "Lines is a brave and beautiful book which moves like nascent light to illuminate and change the dimensions of the 'raw nest' in which poet and reader meet." --LAYNIE BROWNE "These hypnotic poems display both the desire for a life that can be narrated as sequence and the breakdown of that possibility: 'It was the continuance of tomorrow and it was today.' The question of how to tell time -- or account for a life in sentences or numbers -- returns and haunts." --SUSAN GEVIRTZ "Sarah Riggs's Lines reads like a seismograph for a speaker's consciousness. The durational project of this dense, intellectual book follows Lyn Hejinian's My Life and collates a selection of daily poems written between 2018 and 2020 during the end of the Trump administration and the George Floyd protests. The unit of the book is the line and the book moves horizontally, at an angle, often combining qualities and affects you didn't think could go together: a diary at once personal, mysterious, and abstract, a voice both decentered and frilly. ... Here is a mind writing letters to itself in all the porousness that entails." --KEN CHEN Experimental Poetry. Feminist Poetry. Memoir. Memory Studies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1959708120
• ISBN13: 9781959708124
• Release Date: January 1901
• Publisher: Winter Editions
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.2"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher