Works by
Mark Yakich
(Poet)

Poetry

• The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (2008)
  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.

• The Making of Collateral Beauty (2006)
  This small volume is both companion to and descendant of Yakich's award-winning Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross. Each poem here shares a title with a poem in the previous book. Each expands on its namesake poem, giving the background, but a background you've never imagined! When a poet as vital and innovative as Yakich is telling the story behind the poem, the vignettes and characters that emerge from behind the scenes are as exuberant and playful as the originals.

• Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (2004) -- Winner of the 2003 National Poetry Series
  Examines the blessing and curse of romantic love in its multiplicities.

See also:

• Fiction International 39 (2007), Harold Jaffe, ed. with Anthony Shafer, llustrator
  Includes work by David Hutto, Dorothy Blackcrow Mack, Fiona O'Connor, Harold Jaffe, Jan Ramjerdi, Johana Hernandez, Katherine Smith, Mark Yakich, Matthew Roberson, Richard Tabata, Ted Grossman, Theodore A. Harris; Thomas Glynn; Tony Sinclitico, and Tyrone Nagai.