Owl Poems - by Zach Hively

An owl caught Zach Hively going from a wedding to a gravedigging. From that encounter sprouted this series of poems and illustrations. Owl Poems grapples with ancestral loneliness and intense natural connection in sparse, evocative, even lighthearted imagery, guided always by the wise, observant, death-dealing owl.

These poems, from the Reading the West Book Award-winning poet of Desert Apocrypha and the Top of the Rockies award-winning humor columnist behind Fool's Gold, "will be boon companions for many, many years" (V. B. Price).

Praise for Owl Poems:

“I love this book. The conversation throughout between the prose, poetry, and illustrations draws the reader in and creates a profound continuity between nature and the poetry that allows us to experience that connection most profoundly. For my particular sensibility, this is one of Hively’s best yet.”

—Margaret Randall, author of Vertigo of Risk

“Owl Poems aches with a resilience and reverence that makes you feel grit between your teeth and desert heat on your skin. With artistic, unbridled, and visionary language, Zach Hively reframes the world with a decisive desperation to understand the human condition in its deepest authenticity.” 

—River Stingray, author of High Wind Warning