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Études for the Image, or The Cinder Path by Zach Savich

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Publication Date: September 15, 2026

55 pages
© 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961834-13-2
Book Design: Christopher Nelson
Cover Photo: Justin Cox
Perfect-bound
5.5” x 7.5”

To buy the Salon No. 1 bundle (Wilson, Savich, and Hix) click here.

Études for the Image, or The Cinder Path blends memoir and poetics, criticism, and radiant prose. Following the death of his sister, whose life involved complex care, Zach Savich explores how images and phrases can echo through us. This book-length essay is at once a swift, expansive treatise on poetic vision and a consideration of life's ordinary disappointments. It tends to the heat that lives in the cinders and follows the paths they reveal.

Publication Date: September 15, 2026

55 pages
© 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961834-13-2
Book Design: Christopher Nelson
Cover Photo: Justin Cox
Perfect-bound
5.5” x 7.5”

To buy the Salon No. 1 bundle (Wilson, Savich, and Hix) click here.

Études for the Image, or The Cinder Path blends memoir and poetics, criticism, and radiant prose. Following the death of his sister, whose life involved complex care, Zach Savich explores how images and phrases can echo through us. This book-length essay is at once a swift, expansive treatise on poetic vision and a consideration of life's ordinary disappointments. It tends to the heat that lives in the cinders and follows the paths they reveal.

Zach Savich is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Momently (Black Ocean, 2024), and several collections of creative nonfiction, text-for-performance, and cross-genre work, including A Field of Telephones (53rd State Press, 2025). He is the recipient of honors including an NEA fellowship, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art and with the PhD in Creativity at Rowan University.