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 us able to say or touch or see, soon enough, soon enough, aground, to give you this my voice today nevertheless, withstanding, nevertheless, given everything, for you, a clear note from a complicated bell," begins Zach Savich in his first book of prose. He goes on to compose a powerful, precise, and playfully chaotic book-length lyric memoir on art, process, friendship, place, and imagination.

Author City: AMHERST, MA USA

Zach Savich is the author of three books of poetry, Full Catastrophe Living (University of Iowa Press, 2009), Annulments (Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, 2010), and THE FIRESTORM (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), as well as a chapbook, THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD (Omnidawn, 2010), and a book of creative nonfiction on art and the imagination, EVENTS FILM CANNOT WITHSTAND (Rescue Press, 2011). He has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, the Omnidawn Chapbook Poetry Prize, and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's Open Competition. His poems, essays, and reviews appear widely in journals such as A Public Space, DENVER QUARTERLY, Boston Review, Jellyfish, and Gulf Coast. He serves as book review editor with The Kenyon Review.

Reviews and Other Links
excerpt: "Holyoke Fences" @ At Length
interview by Gregory Lawless @ H_NGM_N
Christopher Mohar @ DIAGRAM