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  • The Poetry Reader

    An Anthology

    Edited by Professor Mark Yakich ...
    You have picked up this book because you are a poetry reader. Or you are about to be one. Because as soon as you read a poem, that's what you are.Filled with the profound, the lyrical, the consoling, and the curious, The Poetry Reader: An Anthology is the book you would hope to find if you washed up alone on a deserted island: this companionable collection shows how poetry itself is a discussion, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine

    by Mark Yakich ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    An unconventional collection from a National Poetry Series award-winning poet, author of Spiritual ExercisesMark 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 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross

    by Mark Yakich ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Mark Yakich is an original... In the unabashedly unwieldy title and in each poem, there are no borders drawn between the commonplace and the metaphysical. There are journeys, crossings, and departures—all evocative of the loneliness, alienation, and desire for identity with another (person or place), which, formalized, makes this work recognizable as art of a very high order.” —James Galvin, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Poetry: A Survivor's Guide

    by Professor Mark Yakich ...
    Poetry: A Survivor's Guide has earned high praise from students, teachers, and readers from around the globe for its playful sincerity and idiosyncratic humor and for its approach to a subject both loved and feared. Updated and expanded, including six new sections, the second edition probes a range of strategies for inspiring students and aspiring poets on the ways poetry relates to their own ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Football

    by Professor Mark Yakich ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.When is the “beautiful game” at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What's right in front of fans that they never see? Football celebrates and scrutinizes the world's most popular sport-from top-tier professionals to children ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Spiritual Exercises

    by Mark Yakich ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    A new collection from a poet of "wily verve" whose work is "filled with more satire and jeopardy than anything going today" (Terrance Hayes)Mark Yakich's fifth collection of poetry is a dynamic and discerning journey of devotion and temptation in pursuit of the divine. Not trifling in ambiguity but diving headlong into it, Spiritual Exercises wrestles with popular gods as much as with personal ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Interviews from the Edge

    50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance

    Edited by Professor Mark Yakich, John Biguenet ...
    Interviews from the Edge presents a selection of conversations, drawn from 50 years of the international journal New Orleans Review, that dive head-first into the most enduring aesthetic and social concerns of the last half century.From reflections on the making of literature and films to personal accounts of writing inside racial divides and working against capital punishment, the writers, poets, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • A Meaning For Wife

    by Mark Yakich ...
    Your wife is killed by a cashew (anaphylactic shock), but there isn't time to grieve because your toddler son is always at your heels—wanting to be fed, to be played with, or to sleep next to you all night long. A change of pace seems necessary, so you decide to visit your parents in order to attend your twenty-year high school reunion. What begins as a weekend getaway quickly becomes a theater ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Airplane Reading

    Edited by Christopher Schaberg, Mark Yakich ...
    In Airplane Reading, Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich bring together a range of essays about air travel. Discerning and full of wonder, this prismatic collection features perspectives from a variety of writers, airline workers, and everyday travelers. At turns irreverent, philosophical, and earnest, each essay is a veritable journey in and of itself. And together, they illuminate the at once ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Poetry: A Survivor's Guide

    by Professor Mark Yakich ...
    Playful and serious, unforgiving and compassionate, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide offers an original take on a subject both loved and feared. In a series of provocative and inspiring propositions, the act of reading a poem is made new, and the act of writing one is made over. Questions of poetry's difficulty, pretension, and relevance are explored with insight and daring. In an age of new media and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Football

    Object Lessons

    by Professor Mark Yakich ...
    Narrated by Josh Wichard ...
    Series series Object Lessons

    Unabridged

    3 hours 22 min

    Bloomsbury presents Football by Mark Yakich, read by Josh Wichard.Object Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.When is the “beautiful game” at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What’s right in front of fans that they never see? Football celebrates and scrutinizes the world’s most popular ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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  • The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

    A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

    by Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux ...
    From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who wants to write poetry-and do it well.In this fortuitous collaboration, two spirited poets, themselves teachers of poetry, offer guidance to aspiring beginners and those who have already published. Brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing are each followed by ... Read more

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