Skeleton Says, 2nd Edition! (Nightjar Poetry Press, 2025), Signed, Incl. Shipping
Skeleton Says, a poetry chapbook, by Scot Siegel; originally published in 2010 by Finishing Line Press.
2nd Edition, 2025, Nightjar Poetry Press
ISBN: 979-8-3495-5289-2
41 pages, paperback, perfect bound.
Signed, includes shipping to Continental US.
In Scot Siegel’s Skeleton Says, the twin voices of I and Skeleton reverberate one man’s experience of aging in a world not unlike Yeats’s “rag and bone shop of the heart.” Here, father, lover, body, and ghost give way to the inevitable specter of all life. Like a west coast Robert Frost, Siegel reveals the marrow of nature and self.
~ Catherine Kasper, Creative Writing Program Director, University of Texas at San Antonio
Introspective and lyrical, Skeleton Says weaves its ghost through California pines, an ash vial from Mount Saint Helens, bees behind the clapboards, even the Olympics. Siegel's poems artfully strum the bones of life, collecting what marrow drips out in order to paint vignettes that leave inescapable vibrations up and down your spine.
~ Arlene Ang, The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1