Overview
Talk. Transcription. Why are our conversations smarter than our scholarship? Who said that? Is it poets theater if no one hears it? Phonebank is a book of conversation as performance, criticism as a documentary buzz in the party line. It takes off from Zach Savich's A Field of Telephones (published by 53rd State Press in 2025), which takes off from memoir, poetics, Rust Belt regionalism, and the legacies of the poets Lorine Niedecker and Theodore Roethke. Savich is joined by writers Michael Loughran and Caryl Pagel for a tender game of telephone. The best conversations are the ones where midway through somebody’s like, "Whose shirt is this? And how did we get here?" This is a play about talking with friends, and a romp about critical play.
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