Synopses & Reviews
An unconventional new collection from a National Poetry Series award winner 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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"Yakich's poetry radiates an aura of fresher imaginative possibilities that is invigorating in politically literal times." San Francisco Chronicle
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"Yakich's poems are smart and funny, fragmented and whole, little slaps into consciousness followed by long, painful echoes of growing awareness. You'll be taking them in for a very long time." The Times-Picayune
Synopsis
An unconventional new collection from a National Poetry Series award winner.
Mark Yakich as 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 soufflA(c)s) 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 Author
Mark Yakich's poems and drawings have been published in various magazines, including 3rd Bed, Arts and Letters, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, and Indiana Review.