Savich, Zach: Diving Makes the Water Deep

Diving Makes the Water Deep by 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 treatises—Mary Ruefle's MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY, Richard Hugo's Triggering Town—this 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 memoir—one that will inspire those who love poetry and those who hate it toward further escalation, care, and entanglement. "I have he