The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine
$57.25
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2008
Summary
An unconventional collection from a National Poetry Series award-winning poet, author ofSpiritual ExercisesMark Yakich ’s acclaimed debut collection, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, examined the blessing and curse of romantic love in its multiplicities. The poems in his new collection approach questions of suffering and atrocity (e.g., war, genocide, fallen souffles) with discerning humor and unconventional comedy. These poems show how humor can be taken as seriously as straight-ahead solemnity and how we can re-envision solemnity in terms other than lamentation, protest, and memorial.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143113331 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014311333X |
| Author: | Mark Yakich |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | The Penguin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
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Critics Review
Yakichs poetry radiates an aura of fresher imaginative possibilities that is invigorating in politically literal times. “San Francisco Chronicle”
“This bold second collection is profane, political and humorous in its engagement with what it means to live, especially as a poet, in terrible times.” — Publisher’s Weekly
“Yakich’s poetry radiates an aura of fresher imaginative possibilities that is invigorating in politically literal times.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
Mark Yakich
Mark Yakich has worked in the European Parliament in Brussels and has degrees in political science, West European studies, and poetry.
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