Events Film Cannot Withstand

“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.

Zach Savich is the author of Full Catastrophe Living (University of Iowa Press, 2009), Annulments (Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, 2010), The Man Who Lost His Head (Omnidawn, 2010), and The Firestorm (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011). More work can be found at: the Boston Review, I Thought I Was New Here, Denver Quarterly, and Jellyfish. Zach is the book review editor at The Kenyon Review.