Reservoir

Reservoir is a poetry collection that moves across landscapes both geographic and emotional - from the Spokane Reservation and Vinegar Flats to Ireland, from Pattee Canyon in Montana to the streets of a Philadelphia childhood. Zan Agzigian's poems are rooted in place and relationship: celebrations of family, tributes to friends living and dead, and meditations on the natural world that pulse with a restless, improvisatory energy. The voice is by turns tender and irreverent, shifting fluidly between lyric observation and vernacular storytelling, with poems that range from compact haiku-inflected pieces to sprawling, breathless narratives. A deep engagement with Indigenous communities and landscapes runs through the collection, reflecting Agzigian's long collaboration with Bitterroot Salish poet Victor Charlo. The book is dedicated to her siblings and to her dog, ItZy BitZy, whose presence threads through the poems as an emblem of unconditional love. With a cover image by Bill Kostelec shot on a 1940s view camera and an interior designed by Jodi Miller-Hunter, Reservoir is a book that holds memory the way a reservoir holds water - gathering, deepening, releasing.