The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine
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 can be taken as seriously as straight-ahead solemnity and how we can re-envision solemnity in terms other than lamentation, protest, and memorial.
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The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine
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 can be taken as seriously as straight-ahead solemnity and how we can re-envision solemnity in terms other than lamentation, protest, and memorial.
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The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine

The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine

by Mark Yakich
The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine

The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine

by Mark Yakich

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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 can be taken as seriously as straight-ahead solemnity and how we can re-envision solemnity in terms other than lamentation, protest, and memorial.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143113331
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/25/2008
Series: Penguin Poets
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.34(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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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ROSA PARKS

after Auden after Dante

O what heavenly suffering—
(Continues…)



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