Details

Subject(s)

• American poetry—20th century [Browse]

Series

Iowa poetry prize. [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Awards

"Winner of the Iowa poetry prize"

Language note

English

Contents

• CONTENTS; Movie; Storefront; Pew; Don Quixote; Lessons for a Slow Child; Free-Hand Bandage; Reconsidered Vitamins; Serenade; Outside Santa Maria in Trastevere; Coda to Lessons for a Slow Child; Hotel; Real Estate; Grove; November Morning; "The Love of Simplicity Is the Love of Death"; Countryside; Fool; Federal Case; Winter Orange; For You to Find You Love Me, and Tell Me So; Crow Adoration; View from Above and Below; Crave; Animal; The Perfect Conditions; Then . . .; Sidewalk Sale; Black Walnut Adoration; Fool; On a Pose of Virgil's; Poem for My Wife If We Are Married; On Piety
• Of ConveniencesCurtain Light; Ohio; Psychic Break; See Through; Why Lie; A Dedication; Notes

ISBN

1-58729-846-5

OCLC

794701532

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