Zach Savich‘s most recent books are the poetry collection Daybed (Black Ocean, 2018) and the memoir Diving Makes the Water Deep (Rescue Press, 2018). He teaches at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia.
Poetry
Spring 2009
Outside Santa Maria in Trastevere
You tell your parents we are getting on. Like one’s reflection around a missing pane, bells do two-thirds of a resolving chord. Vendors lift their wares in linens—think of Cleopatra […]
Spring 2008
For Form’s Sake: X. J. Kennedy’s In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955 – 2007
John Hopkins University Press, $18.95 (paperback) Because he writes poems that use meter and rhyme, X. J. Kennedy might seem to belong with those recent formalists— James Merrill, Richard Wilbur, […]
Fall 2008
“Before This No Longer Feels Like a Crime:” Mark Yakich’s The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine
Penguin, $18.00 (paperback) Here is the entirety of “A Source of Style,” a poem in Mark Yakich’s superb and disturbing third collection, The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine: “Hart […]
Summer 2010
Unto a Juggler Turned
Summer 2010
On Jennifer Kronovet’s Awayward
Fall 2009
On Louise Glück’s A Village Life
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2009, 72 pages, $23.00. Like several of the most affecting poems in Louise Glück’s new collection, A Village Life, “In the Café” adopts a persona that […]
Summer 2009
The Pursuit of What Exists
Review of Sam Sampson’s Everything Talks, Auckland University Press and Shearsman Books, 2008, 80 pages, $15.00 “And everything that I did Did with me talk.” from “Wonder,” by Thomas Traherne […]
Spring 2009
Lenses and Eyes
Review of James Longenbach, The Art of the Poetic Line, and Donald Revell, The Art of Attention (Graywolf Press) As James Longenbach points out in The Art of the Poetic […]