Vincent Katz - "Daffodil" - Zachary Cahill

Stopping time on the page to discover the poetic moment where past and present are one, Vincent Katz (called a poet of “vibrant cinematic hunger” by Eileen Myles) opens himself to the fleeting beauty of both culture and nature in this stunning gathering of new work.

Vincent Katz will discuss Daffodil and Other Poems. He will be joined in discussion by Zachary Cahill. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. 

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About the Book

With his painterly eye and disarming concision on the page, Katz opens this book with a powerful image of “all time sequestered in the fold of a daffodil,” setting the stage for an encounter with the immediacy we must embrace to see the world around us with clarity. At the center of this collection are his captivating poems about animals, and the poems continually engage with the heady passage of days and years, the promise to honor a life in the here and now, to walk the street with the sense that, “It’s not about buying / But rather about feeling the air.”

About the Author

Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, and critic. He is the author of the poetry collection Daffodil, out this year from Alfred A. Knopf, as well as the collections Broadway for Paul, Southness, and Swimming Home, among others. He collaborated with Anne Waldman on the book-length poem Fantastic Caryatids and with Andrei Codrescu on A Possible Epic of Care. Katz is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translations of the Roman love poet, and is currently translating the Works and Days and the Theogony of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. He is the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art, and his writing on contemporary art and poetry has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and The Poetry Project Newsletter. He lives in New York City.

 About the Interlocutor

Zachary Cahill (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. For over a decade he has worked on the USSA, a proposition for a country that uses exhibitionary form as a meditation on nation-state infrastructure and propaganda. More recently, his work has taken a turn towards the genres of fantasy and fairytales. His art has been featured in the 8th Berlin Biennale, Contemporary Art Brussels (CAB), Regina Rex (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the Smart Museum of Art, among others. He has given readings, lectures, and conducted séances at The Poetry Foundation, the Goethe Institut Kultur Symposium in Wiemar, ICA London, and the Banff Centre. Zachary has been featured in the Art Reviews "Future Greats" issue and was included in the contemporary art survey, The Artist Who Will Change the World, published by Thames and Hudson. His writings have appeared in Afterall, Artforum, Bad-at-Sports, and Critical Inquiry. The Black Flame of Paradise, his first novel, was released by Mousse Publishing in 2018. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Portable Gray, a bi-annual arts and ideas journal put out by the University of Chicago Press for the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, where he is Director of Programs and Fellowships. In 2021, Cahill self-published the graphic novel Unicorn Death Road Trip Buddy Movie.