Full Catastrophe Living

Informationen zum Autor Zach Savich received a BA in English from the University of Washington and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop; he is currently in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst! where he is a teaching assistant. His poems and essays have appeared in such venues as the Colorado Review! the Beloit Poetry Journal! jubilat! Court Green! the Denver Quarterly! and the anthology Best New Poets 2008. He is an editor at Thermos Magazine. Klappentext 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 innovative fluency of its roving forms and moods: these poetic hybrids are not hothouse blossoms but minotaurs. With ebullient intelligence and high-stakes insistence on the panic! lust! and suffering of the sensual world! "Full Catastrophe Living" uses the self as an instrument to investigate art! love! and the hardest honesty. Zusammenfassung 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 the conflicts between romance and reality! between inventing a fresh world and staying true to this one.

Product details

• Authors: Zach Savich
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2009
• EAN: 9781587297984
• ISBN: 978-1-58729-798-4
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 232 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Iowa Poetry Prize; Iowa Poetry Prize Series; Iowa Poetry Prize; The Iowa Poetry Prize Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama