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Humor, suffering, and fallen soufflés: a poetic exploration of survival.

The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine

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    128 pages

  • Release Date

    25 March 2008

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Summary

An unconventional collection from a National Poetry Series award-winning poet, author of Spiritual Exercises.

Mark 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 soufflés) with discerning humor and unconventional comedy. These poems show how humor…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143113331
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

About The Author

Mark Yakich

Mark Yakich has worked in the European Parliament in Brussels and holds degrees in political science, West European studies, and poetry.

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