Concrete and permutational poems celebrating a serene atrophy of language from the author of My Vibe In his latest collection Goodbye Letter New Yorkbased poet Jeremy Sigler born 1968 deconstructs his very will to write as he articulates verbally and graphically the implied obsolescence of language itself. The book feels less like a proper literary work a book of poetry and more like a manual for poetic survival. One poem reads like some sort of linguistic code that manages to murmur it is what it is another is more classically concrete reflecting on typewriter and pattern poems of past centuries and another consists of a complete signature of unmarked blank pages they await being torn out and curled up into a loose tube as was the 19thcentury prototype for the stethoscope but used this time to listen in on the poets speaking heart. Siglers newest collection may be seen as a field guide to a poets last gasp. show more