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The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine

By Mark Yakich

By Mark Yakich

By Mark Yakich

By Mark Yakich

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Category: Poetry

Category: Poetry

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Mar 25, 2008 | ISBN 9780143113331

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Mar 25, 2008 | ISBN 9781101221273

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    About 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.

    About 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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    About Mark Yakich

    Mark Yakich is a poet, novelist, painter, and the Gregory F. Curtin, S.J., Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans.

    About Mark Yakich

    Mark Yakich is a poet, novelist, painter, and the Gregory F. Curtin, S.J., Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans.

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 25, 2008 | 128 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780143113331

    Category: Poetry

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 25, 2008 | 128 Pages | ISBN 9781101221273
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    Praise

    “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

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