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Title

The importance of peeling potatoes in Ukraine / Mark Yakich.

Author

Yakich, Mark

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2008.

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Details

Description

112 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Mark Yakich's new collection approaches questions of tragedy (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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Penguin poets

Subjects

• Poetry
• American poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Tourists Beware -- Proof Text -- After the Flood All the Condoms Fall Off -- Young Ukrainians -- Patriot Acts -- Appalachian Canticle -- Please Present This Card at Ascension Church on Saturday, November the 4th -- Seersucker -- Before vodka arrived on the scene -- Brilliant Pebbles -- Pretzels Come to America -- Meditation on the Golden Gate Bridge -- To Step in God's Cloud -- Holy Sonnet -- Bow Job -- Hope, prosthesis for -- Holidays -- Plagiarism -- SIDS -- Brief History of Patriotism -- Poem for the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- J. J. Audubon -- Few Inches of Dead Flesh -- Suicide Poem -- Chagall Takes a Prisoner -- I'll Take "Notable Artists of the 20th Century in Couplets," Please, Alex -- Leni Riefenstahl -- Adorno -- Narcissism -- Source of Style -- Dear Mr. Whitman, -- Rosa Parks -- Estimada Sra. Dear Abby: -- Supercomputer Finally Answers Charles Manson -- Oedipus -- Fabliau -- Spell to Bring Me Osama bin Laden -- Nightie, take back the -- Green Zone New Orleans -- September 12 -- Last Flight Out of a State of Mind -- Firefighter Song -- For a Young Male Poet -- Funeral Direction -- Patriot Acts -- New Pathways to Peace in the Middle East -- Unknown Soldier -- Truth Is Subject to Its Title -- For a Suicide Bomber -- Bath of Resistance -- Embedded -- Panopticon -- Interview with the Executioner -- My Initial Dwelling in Nonexistence -- Blueprint Effect -- Patriot Acts -- Dinner Party -- Reader/Reaper -- Untenable Nostalgia for Chernobyl.

ISBN

9780143113331

LCCN

^^2007049195

OCLC

• 182662772
• SCSB-10915051

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library