Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Art. "I want to write you a beautiful book of prose, against not least the before-too-long loss of tongue and sense and all sun-defiant hues on the river bend, and none of
Poetry. "Take Zach Savich's THE FIRESTORM as one proof of Emerson's assertion that the mind's nature is volcanic. A firestorm is such a conflagration that it produces above it its own atmosphere. And
Poetry. "Zach Savich's THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD wrestles with the irrational rationality of life as we dimly perceive it. Yet these poems elicit, like the ambiguity of life itself, our most fervent a
Poetry. Zach Savich's fourth book of poetry, CENTURY SWEPT BRUTAL, offers a rapt and restless meditation on what Oppen called "the world, weather-swept with which / one shares the century." In a lands
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. DIVING MAKES THE WATER DEEP is a memoir about cancer, teaching, and poetic friendship. Alternately wise and wild, humorous and moving, Savich writes of illness and illness
Poetry. Through intent observation and fractured glances, the poems in DAYBED make everyday elements--yard, bicycle, sidewalk, and breeze--feel elemental. Their consideration of longing, convalescence
Merging the spirits of Don Quixote, Shakespearean fools, Theodore Roethke, Frank O’Hara, James Merrill, and the Marx Brothers, Zach Savich’s first book does more than showcase the
