Sean Singer’s Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press), Caryl Pagel’s Free Clean Fill Dirt (U. Akron Press), a bunch of psychology/theology/philosophy for a course I’m teaching on theories of inspiration.
Don’t be afraid of the obvious. Make the obvious more obvious.
Honestly: my own books, during revising, editing, sleepless three years after publication wondering what I was thinking. And the books by friends, when I was involved with revising, editing, sleepless three years after publication wondering what they were thinking. And then books I taught for several years (Shane McCrae’s Mule, Richard Siken’s Crush, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Juliana Spahr’s This connection of everyone with lungs, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass). And then probably Dante’s Purgatory. Do different translations count as the same book?
There’s a twenty dollar bill on the street, and you chase it, but it’s tied to a fishing line, and it leads you into the trunk of a limo. That rug is covering a bottomless pit. You’ve won a prize, click this link and confirm your bank account and genius. Ekphrasis.
I quit the warehouse job. Gave myself a fellowship.
Zach Savich is the author of the poetry collections Full Catastrophe Living (2009), Annulments (2010), and The Firestorm (2011), as well as a book of prose, Events Film Cannot Withstand (2011). His work has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Open Competition, among other honors. He teaches at the University of Arts, in Philadelphia, and co-edits Rescue Press’s Open Prose Series.
Find more information on Savich’s latest book Daybed here: https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/daybed
