Desert Apocrypha - Hively, Zach
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Winner of the 32nd Annual Reading the West Book Awards. When Zach Hively moved back to New Mexico, he found his new home not in the city but in the high desert, where things make a different sort of sense. Over two years, he wrote these five suites of poems from that place-feral and introspective, playful and mindful-and made a book that feels as analog as the desert itself. These poems "are so richly spare, so warmly restrained that metaphor replaces stone and distance as it flows from the underground as apocrypha, as products of authenticity, outside the canon, saying through him what only he can say" (V. B. Price).…mehr

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Winner of the 32nd Annual Reading the West Book Awards. When Zach Hively moved back to New Mexico, he found his new home not in the city but in the high desert, where things make a different sort of sense. Over two years, he wrote these five suites of poems from that place-feral and introspective, playful and mindful-and made a book that feels as analog as the desert itself. These poems "are so richly spare, so warmly restrained that metaphor replaces stone and distance as it flows from the underground as apocrypha, as products of authenticity, outside the canon, saying through him what only he can say" (V. B. Price).
Autorenporträt
Zach Hively lives near Abiquiu, New Mexico. His second collection, Desert Apocrypha, received the Reading the West Book Award for poetry. His Fool's Gold humor column has earned three first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists' Top of the Rockies awards, and he has won a Maxwell Medallion from the Dog Writers' Association of America. He is also the author of Wild Expectations, with photography by Magdalena Lily McCarson. The two write music and perform together as the alt-folk duo Oxygen on Embers. You can read selections and learn more at zachhively.com.