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Zach Savich
This critical reckoning by a celebrated poet re-envisions what scholarship can offer during times of crisis in the humanities and in our own lives. In his acclaimed 2016 bookDiving Makes…
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Dandelion fences, twine wires, shoebox roses: Savich's fanciful, stark meditations showcase the momentary and the momentous.
Momently The celebrated poet's latest collection deepens his exploration of the delicate and the…
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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…
With insistence on the panic, lust, and suffering of the sensual world, this book uses the self as an instrument to investigate art, love, and the hardest honesty. It explores…
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, and the pleasures of ordinary astonishment…
Zach Savich’s The Man Who Lost His Head wrestles with the irrational rationality of life as we dimly perceive it.
In Zach Savich’s new collection, intent seeing makes the present more present. The mysteries of grief and joy, of daily desire and loss, resonate fleetingly, a bell struck delicately, struck…
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…
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…
