Roman and Moscow Poems
Chapbook. Design by Gordon Hadfield and Sasha Steensen. Edition of 75 copies.
Chapbook. Design by Gordon Hadfield and Sasha Steensen. Edition of 75 copies.
Broadside printed using lead type and Gocco. Signed by author. Printed by Gordon Hadfield & Sasha Steensen. Edition of 75 copies.
Winner of the 2010 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by final judge Donald Revell. Zach Savich’s first book, Full Catastrophe Living, won the 2008 Iowa Poetry Prize and received a New American Poet honor from the Poetry Society of America. His poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in many journals, including Boston Review, Kenyon […]
Original, inventive: we want our poets to be bold. We want the poems to add up to more than the sum of their parts. We want the sublime, the open-to-the-bone exclamation of epiphany. And we’d like the poem to be smart but not too intellectual. Why not? In her second book, The Irrationalist, Suzanne Buffam […]
Featured poetry from the Spring 2011 issue.
Featured poetry from the Spring 2011 issue.
Featured poetry from the Spring 2011 issue.
Featured poetry from the Spring 2011 issue.
Nature can be good for us. In a recent study, Japanese scientists found that walking through a forest or other wooded area for a few hours reduced concentrations of the stress hormone cortisol in subjects and lowered blood pressure. Other studies show green areas alleviate anxiety and depression.
Beginning with the decorative language poem, “Drip drip drip drip drip drip drop / …,” that serves as the book’s frontispiece to the lively rift of forty-five names for “the city I cannot name” (after T. S. Eliot’s “Unreal City”) in the title poem, John Beer’s language fuels a successful momentum.