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The Man Who Lost His Head
By Zach Savich
Selected by Elizabeth Robinson
as the winner of the
2010 Omnidawn Chapbook Poetry Prize
36 pages plus end papers, (5.5” x 7” Paper)
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Zach Savich is the author of Full Catastrophe Living, winner of the 2008 Iowa Prize, and Annulments, winner of the 2010 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His most recent book, The Firestorm, is forthcoming from the Cleveland State University Poetry Series.
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Praise for The Man Who Lost His Head:
Zach Savich's The Man Who Lost His Head wrestles with the irrational rationality of life as we dimly perceive it. Yet these poems elicit, like the ambiguity of life itself, our most fervent and strange fidelities. There's such a thing as a willed poetic ignorance: it forms its own epistemological haven, and these poems live in that locale. Thus the poet can ask "Does dark mean blank?" and, in the very asking, expand the horizon of possibility (that is, knowing) by which we recognize the interchangeability of absence and desire. In that dark, we grope into and through the rudiments of our own longing, "melted to its presences." When Savich writes "I suppose I do believe in nothing," his words resound as a positive statement of belief.
--Elizabeth Robinson, 2010 chapbook contest judge
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