Savich, Zach: Diving Makes the Water Deep

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Diving Makes the Water Deepby Zach Savich (Rescue Press, paperback)

Publication Date: November 1, 2016

Publisher Marketing:Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. DIVING MAKES THE WATER DEEP is a memoir about cancer, teaching, and poetic friendship. Alternately wise and wild, humorous and moving, Savich writes of illness and illness narratives, the present moment, pain, memory, desire, and poetry’s oft-debated capacity to matter: “Justify why you have an eye. How come nursery rhymes, how come tulips and clouds, fear and bread, insight without immediate application.” In the tradition of previous poet-teacher treatisesMary Ruefle’s MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY, Richard Hugo’sTriggering Townthis book’s inquiry embraces the reader as correspondent, collaborator, and confidant. DIVING MAKES THE WATER DEEP, Savich’s second book of nonfiction, is a huge-hearted, riotous memoirone that will inspire those who love poetry and those who hate it toward further escalation, care, and entanglement.

“I have heard it said that a spiritual practice is just that, practice, for use when your crisis comes. You can call upon it then, and it ought to be answerable to that call. Laid bare here and put to the test is one writer’s extraordinarily developed practice of reading, as well as his related exercise of full, ardent friendship and of disinhibited personal freedom; and DIVING MAKES THE WATER DEEP is a powerful account of why they matter when they matter. This bodied, tender, generous, furious book-long essay discloses the imperiled life, self-led learning, and consequential living, that have made Zach Savich better than any poet of our generation at weighing the momentary and offering the present.”Brian Blanchfield