The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine
Author: Yakich, Mark
ISBN: 9780143113331
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 25 Mar 2008
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
b>An unconventional collection from a National Poetry Series award-winning poet, author ofi>Spiritual Exercises/i>/b>br>br> Mark Yakich 's acclaimed debut collection, i>Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross/i>, 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.
ISBN: 9780143113331
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 25 Mar 2008
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
b>An unconventional collection from a National Poetry Series award-winning poet, author ofi>Spiritual Exercises/i>/b>br>br> Mark Yakich 's acclaimed debut collection, i>Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross/i>, 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.
