id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_5kaew3vrjrcrvmxowu3rf5k6vu Chip Livingston Royals (Cedar Sigo) 2019 3 .pdf application/pdf 1499 77 69 The title of Cedar Sigo's recent poetry collection, Royals, couldn't be more apt for the book's Sigo, in the tradition of the west coast branch of the New York School and Beat poets, whose the poet's love for these royal landscapes: the party, the poetry reading, the conversation. In "The Real Contents of a Street Poet's Suitcase," Sigo catalogs among the short list poem: coined the term "cubism." The "street poet" of the poem's title has those passages underlined in Sigo invokes the lives of poets and artists, dead and living, referencing them The Verlaines' blues are carried into Royals from Sigo's previous collection Language Arts, where we find the poet in the poem titled "Verlaine Blues" in the rain, "dressed Sigo's speaking poet/narrator finds his community in Royals, restaging "Apollinaire's last hot Sigo's love poems to the poets and their landscapes in Royals elevate the artists enshrined toward immortality. ./cache/work_5kaew3vrjrcrvmxowu3rf5k6vu.pdf ./txt/work_5kaew3vrjrcrvmxowu3rf5k6vu.txt