Beneath All Water

It's a book of poems about broken kids; the ones that run away, or get thrown away, while everyone else looks away. The book believes that scars are proof we are still alive. It's about survival, and sometimes it's about surviving the ones who didn't. It's about addiction and recovery, anger and hunger, grief turning to mourning, night turning to morning. It's about memory, the things that haunt it and the things it gives life to. It's about community and family, both lost and found. It's about being lucky enough to feel guilty, to have regrets. It's about beauty and horror, sometimes maybe even horrible beauty—the sublime spaces in between. The book's about kitsugi, about wabi sabi. It's about picking up the pieces to make something new, even if not whole. It's about comfort in incompletion. It's a book that's thankful about being able to walk away, all limbs intact.   Zackary Medlin grew up in South Carolina, ran away to Alaska, spent some time in Utah, and recently started calling Colorado home. His poetry has appeared in The Boiler, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Tinderbox Poetry, and others. He holds an M.A./M.F.A. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a Ph.D. from the University of Utah, and now teaches writing at Fort Lewis College. He lives in Bayfield with his partner, their cat, and the hummingbirds, foxes, and mule deer that have graciously decided to share the yard with them.