“ insists we are built in some measure by what we lose, what we grieve, that part of being alive is being lonely.”-Molly McCully Brown, author of The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, New Orleans Review
“I hope other readers will remember the name Lindsay Tigue and find or buy or borrow or read over somebody’s shoulder System of Ghosts.”-Kelly Cherry, StorySouth This crush together, her feelings always a bit estranged from her, replaced by her gravitation to facts that she has remembered.”- Diane Wakoski, Bay of Angels “Lindsay Tigue’s work presents a vision, dominated by geography and natural history, uniquely paired with emotional imagination-the not-there-ness that coexists with its there-ness. In these pages the world and the self are fantasized, destroyed, shared like an orange, abandoned like a rough draft, as unforgettable as the dead.”- Traci Brimhall, Our Lady of the Ruins With a restless intelligence, Lindsay Tigue’s poems seek to know, to measure, to recover histories nearly lost. “ System of Ghosts explores frontiers vanishing and gone. “I find myself returning to this book again and again, a sincere phantom.”-Jenn Carter, Green Mountains Review “At once a record and a haunting, poetry invites us to consider the ways loss shapes us while also demanding we live in the present moment.” -Andrea Scarpino, American Book Review As in the poetry of Robyn Schiff and the prose of Eula Biss, these esoteric facts, knit together carefully and with a gentle sense of mischievous humor, come to generalize about human suffering and hope.” - Craig Morgan Teicher, To Keep Love Blurry Bits of knowledge, gathered magpie-like, which others might consider trivia–the origins of the red and green on traffic lights, the different ways distant towns told time before railroads connected them, the composition of the asteroid Ceres–spur these poems toward startling personal and public insights. “Lindsay Tigue has, first and foremost, a curious mind: her poems are motored by information. *Poems from this book in: Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Rattle, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, diode, Blackbird, Poet Lore, Indiana Review
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*Other Press: Ploughshares Blog, Lansing City PULSE, Clarkston News, Flagpole, Largehearted Boy, Adroit Journal, The Writer’s Center, The Red & Black, Ing Magazine, Michigan State University Honors College, Michigan State University Alumni Magazine, Iowa State University Alumni VISIONS Magazine, The Sundress Blog, WORT 89.9 Madison 8 o’clock Buzz, Karen Craigo’s Poetr圓66, Chicago Reader, EvilCyclist’s blog, NewCity Lit, the Rumpus, Ponder Deeper blog, Education World, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Bookforum, the Badger Herald, Sundress Lyric Essentials, The Writer’s Center First Personal Plural, Pints and Cupcakes Best Books 2016, Radio Free Nashville, “Everyday Poetry” with Sandee Gertz *Reviews of System of Ghosts in: Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, storySouth, New Orleans Review, The Gazette, NewPages, The Literary Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, American Book Review, Stirring, Poet Lore | University of Iowa Press Book Page | Add on Goodreads | Add on StoryGraph *Finalist for Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award for a book by a debut authorĪvid Bookshop | | IndieBound | *Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book Award for best 2016 poetry book by an independent press *Shortlisted for Julie Suk Award, for best poetry book of the year by an independent press
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