| The Man Who Lost His Head Contributor(s): Savich, Zach (Author) |
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ISBN: 1890650501 ISBN-13: 9781890650506 Publisher: Omnidawn OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2010052019 |
| Physical Information: 36 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 and strange fidelities. There's such a thing as a willed poetic ignorance: it forms its own epistemological haven, and these poems live in that locale. Thus the poet can ask Does dark mean blank? and, in the very asking, expand the horizon of possibility (that is, knowing) by which we recognize the interchangeability of absence and desire. In that dark, we grope into and through the rudiments of our own longing, melted to its presences. When Savich writes I suppose I do believe in nothing, his words resound as a positive statement of belief. |
Contributor Bio(s): Savich, Zach: - 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. |