Week 26 (2026) – Zawacki, Wittkop & Habermeyer

For years I have been writing a paragraph about every book I read as part of my annual Reading Log, which you can find above. Many of the books I read are from smaller, independent presses or were written by writers who aren’t everyday names, and I would like to give them a bit more exposure. Other books have publishing dates that are years or decades earlier and haven’t been written about much lately. So, I’m going to make a weekly post of these little blurbs I write (assuming I finish any books that week) and not keep them hidden away on my website. Feel free to tell me what you think. Andrew Zawacki’s Endscape (Photoworks, 2026) has 30 b&w photographs and 24 poems (all sestets). They all come from deep within the countryside north of Athens, Georgia, where he lives, with its dark entangled woods, buggy streams, and wide rivers. Elsewhere the markets might be “panicking” and overhead there are contrails “making a sick wash of the sky.” But in the woods, there is still the slightest…