Jorie Graham // Josie Sigler
December 7th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
An essay I wrote recently was just published at The Quarterly Conversation about reading Jorie Graham and Josie Sigler side by side:
One letter separates the names of these two poets. Move from “r” to “s” and Jorie becomes Josie. This simple nearness draws an inevitable and inappropriate comparison when these two poets are seen together on the bookshelf: from Jorie to Josie, a progression. The title of Josie Sigler’s first collection, living must bury, echoes the title of Jorie Graham’s seminal work The End of Beauty. Both of these titles reference themes of life, humanity, and the end of life and humanity. They also move toward declaring an objective, a purpose: this is the purpose of beauty, to live we must perform the act of burial…Read the rest here
