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The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine |
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Mark Yakich
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Mark yakich's first collection of poems, UNRELATED INDIVIDUALS FORMING A GROUP WAITING TO CROSS, was chosen by James Galvin for the National Poetry Series. These poems examined the blessing and curse of romantic love in its multiplicities, and they received some very strong reviews; The San Francisco Chronicle said that "Yakich's poetry radiates an aura of fresher imaginative possibilities that is invigorating in politically literal times." "For Yakich," wrote the Chicago Tribune, "fables and fairy tales -- their generalized characters, cruel encounters, tests and dramatic resolutions -- provide the elements for a sophisticated, compressed, sometimes cryptic but emotionally resonant poetry." In the tradition of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Kundera's Life is Elsewhere, and Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Yakich's new collection approaches 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.
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $18.00
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