{"product_id":"full-catastrophe-living-zach-savich-9781587297984","title":"Full Catastrophe Living","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eFull Catastrophe Living\u003c\/i\u003e uses the self as an instrument to investigate art, love, and the hardest honesty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn meditations, songs, slapstick sequences, sonnets, narratives, and tightly carved fragments, Savich explores the conflicts between romance and reality, between inventing a new world and staying true to this one. Relishing both traditional and experimental poetics, he takes refreshing, ecumenical risks to show the \"strange grace \/ of bells that ring with a rag's polishing.\" Like a Fourth of July band conductor guiding planes to land, his poetic wit alters what's real. This book will change the ways that readers think about poetry, language's expressive capacity, and the robust world around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zach Savich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1587297981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587297984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"Zach Savich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088597627135,"sku":"9781587297984","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_08d0d1de-1f12-403a-afd9-b205e7ee7da5.jpg?v=1769105655","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/full-catastrophe-living-zach-savich-9781587297984","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}