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\"Seigel<\/a><\/p>\n

The American writer M. Bartley Seigel is in residence in Tartu from February until May 2015.<\/p>\n

M. Bartley Seigel is the American author of\u00a0This Is What They Say<\/em>\u00a0(poetry, Typecast Publishing, 2012). His poems have appeared in numerous places including\u00a0DIAGRAM, Forklift Ohio, H_NGM_N, Lumberyard Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Wheelhouse<\/em>. He is the co-founder, co-publisher, and co-editor at [PANK] Publishing —\u00a0PANK Magazine\u00a0<\/em>& Tiny Harcore Press, and associate professor of creative writing and diverse literatures at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michign, USA. He is currently a visiting professor at Tartu University where he teaches courses in American literature and creative writing.<\/p>\n

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Seigel’s first book of poem’s, 2012’s\u00a0This Is What They Say<\/em>\u00a0(Typecast Publishing), articulated a poetics\u00a0of untold working class desire emanating from the derelict factories and abandoned barns of America’s upper Midwest. The poems represent an accounting of how it feels to grow into adulthood amid a first-world wasteland: the slow burn of homemade liquor, the bone-deep ache of a cavity, and the keen of metal against glass.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis Is What They Say<\/em>\u00a0introduces us to a poet of intensity and passion who sings against the backdrop of a world we know intimately, but which he has shown to us with new eyes. Dark and humorous, these pieces revel in language as they illuminate with imagery. M. Bartley Seigel is an important poet writing about a time and place that matter.\u201d \u2013Laura Kasischke, author of National Book Critics Circle Award-winner\u00a0Space, In Chains<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Life Before Her Eyes<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThese graceful miniatures of the rural-minded and heart-weary are stirring, subtle, and true. Seigel, with his startling observations, will have you swearing to pay more attention to the world.\u201d \u2013Deb Olin Unferth, National Book Critics Circle Award-finalist for\u00a0Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Seigel writes poems that aren’t afraid of the dirt under their nails\u2014that stink of cigarettes and rotted wood, abandoned gas stations and stagnate water, of leaky faucets and kerosene, ex-lovers and old parole officers, of black eyes and bad blood.”\u00a0\u2013John Pursley, author\u00a0If You Have Ghosts<\/em><\/p>\n

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Artist-in-residence statement:<\/strong> I will be using my residency to complete work on my second book of poems, under the working title The Tenement Sonnets<\/em>. I was told once by a mentor that a poet should never excuse or explain away a poem, but as an artist-in-residence statement demands a certain kind of justification, I\u2019ll venture, however tentatively, that these poems in their current state of evolution are reflections upon the obsessions of middle age, upon time, love, family, and desire, upon the body\u2019s location in nature and myth, mixed up with a mounting sense of doom, and set amid the beautiful confusion of our current moment. If my first book was a collection of prose poems wherein the form and language was intended to capture a snapshot of a particular place and people at a particular point in economic history, in this new manuscript I am experimenting primarily with open form sonnets, most constructed simply of 14 10-syllable lines, which seems like a pretty good working metaphor for my subject matter, like our bodies, like language, balanced in the present between the formalities of the past and the possibilities of our tomorrows.<\/p>\n

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selection from The Tenement Sonnets<\/em><\/p>\n

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If I could learn the ticker tape ticking<\/p>\n

from between your clenched teeth, fathom the words<\/p>\n

inscribed there, I might snap my fingers bright<\/p>\n

in the light moment, crack the lock on this<\/p>\n

bone box and tattoo you again in moons<\/p>\n

above the velvet of my trembling fear.<\/p>\n

Would you help wipe away the weeping ink<\/p>\n

with your heart, rewind the spring assembly<\/p>\n

to set gears in motion again? Gypsy<\/p>\n

moth, candle light, this night of stars, this hiss,<\/p>\n

this stink of singed hair, I wear juniper<\/p>\n

against moments like this, to remind me<\/p>\n

of when we first rose flushed, grand, and naked<\/p>\n

from the dark waters of our hidden lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[17],"class_list":["post-7109","resident","type-resident","status-publish","hentry","category-typa-residency"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nM. Bartley Seigel - TYPA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/typa.ee\/en\/resident\/m-bartley-seigel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"M. Bartley Seigel - TYPA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The American writer M. Bartley Seigel is in residence in Tartu from February until May 2015. M. Bartley Seigel is the American author of\u00a0This Is What They Say\u00a0(poetry, Typecast Publishing, 2012). 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