Archipelago
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Alana Siegel was born in Los Angeles in 1985. Archipelago is her first full-length book of poetry. Her chapbooks include The Occupations, Semata, and Words from Ra Ra Junction. She presently lives in Berkeley, California, collaborating at the burgeoning Bay Area Public School

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The speed of thought-not some rapid pulse or lickety-split rhythmicity (Alana Siegel's pulse is even enough); but as I let fit the movement of my reading to the movement of her language, I sense a lightning velocity to the flash of her intelligence; the work of relation and resonance that is operative behind the screen of speech; the work of mind and heart that allows for rich and multi-phasic connections wrought in image, sound, reference, and soul's release, to find their proper interval without requiring pause or interrupt to wrest encrypted sense from surface seas of text so that I am ever with her, far far out on the farthest reach of herARCHIPELAGO. -- Charles Stein

She is a swimmer bursting out of the smooth surface poems of so many recent American years, out into a risky air where poetry breathes beyond the poem-as-commodity into something greater, a continuity of articulate presence. There's something Wagnerian about Siegel's work, a sense of 'endless melody' undistracted by conventions of closure and easy formal strategies. It's brave, because it doesn't give the reader easy units to grasp. Instead, her poetry strives into openness, lives up to the deepest challenge of the past century, creating not artifacts but processes, long dances for agile readers. -- Robert Kelly

Resonant and stylized, Archipelago is full of big questions about how to best live, how to speak and what to say, how to have empathy, in short, how to be and be attentive to the complications of this time, a time that might just be an apocalypse, but an apocalypse that is probably the beginning not the ending. Poetry has a long and esteemed tradition of inquiry, of philosphizing. Archipelago meets this tradition and raises it, asks it question after question. -- Juliana Spahr

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