{"product_id":"the-importance-of-peeling-potatoes-in-ukraine-isbn-9780143113331","title":"The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unconventional collection from a National Poetry Series award-winning poet, author of \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Exercises \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mark Yakich 's acclaimed debut collection, \u003ci\u003eUnrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"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.\" — \u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yakich's poetry radiates an aura of fresher imaginative possibilities that is invigorating in politically literal times.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003eMark Yakich has worked in the European Parliament in Brussels and has degrees in political science, West European studies, and poetry.\u003cb\u003eROSA PARKS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eafter Auden after Dante\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO what heavenly suffering—\u003cbr\u003eWhat she can and can't do.\u003cbr\u003e(Save her a dance, Bruegel.)\u003cbr\u003eFrom knee to shining knee,\u003cbr\u003eWhere is the painting of her\u003cbr\u003eFeet, which have never been\u003cbr\u003eComfortable, arranged in pairs\u003cbr\u003eAs peaches are, relaxed, nothing\u003cbr\u003eTo do. Where is she not\u003cbr\u003eNot speaking No! trying\u003cbr\u003eTo keep her world small and\u003cbr\u003eBold. Where is she confessing\u003cbr\u003eYes: I am neither arctic ox\u003cbr\u003eNor Peruvian goat. But ah,\u003cbr\u003eBut oh, this is she, nose-flared\u003cbr\u003eAnd ear-deep along a tangled\u003cbr\u003eBank, trying to find an end\u003cbr\u003eTo the story of people being\u003cbr\u003eBought and sold. The raw\u003cbr\u003eYears thaw and thaw and\u003cbr\u003eThe law makes big men\u003cbr\u003eAmend but a little. When she\u003cbr\u003eLay down for the last time,\u003cbr\u003eDid You tell her, O Lord—\u003cbr\u003eI couldn't—how white those\u003cbr\u003eDark woods would get?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304993116389,"sku":"NP9780143113331","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143113331.jpg?v=1767739916","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-importance-of-peeling-potatoes-in-ukraine-isbn-9780143113331","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}