New poetry collection, Desert Apocrypha

I’m delighted to announce my newest collection of poems, Desert Apocrypha, will be released November 2, 2021, by Casa Urraca Press.

A special edition of the book, limited to 100 copies and run on a black paper cover, will be available exclusively at the Casa Urraca stop on the Abiquiu Studio Tour, October 9-11. We’ll be set up at Nest — please come by!

Here’s what my friends have to say about the new book:

“Desert Apocrypha is a testament to the secret life of making new things, when poets become who they really are, outracing and dodging expectation and fashion and consensus, unencumbered by workshops, teachers, even special readers, allowing themselves to say what’s in them to be said. Zach Hively knows the metaphor of the desert by heart, both the hermit’s retreat and the paths of pilgrims and death-defying explorers. That is why his 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, author of Polishing the Mountain, or Catching Balance Just in Time: Selected Poems 2008-2020

“Have you ever spent time, after dark, under the galaxy of stars, rocks on your back, sand between your toes, and fresh crisp air filling your lungs? Well get ready, because Desert Apocrypha inserts your being into the depths of desert imagination and mental texture surrounding us all in the land of enchantment. Zach Hively delivers, yet again, a palette of feelings and visuals that no one can ignore.”

Magdalena Lily McCarson, author of Type