The Making of Collateral Beauty

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by Mark Yakich

Idiosyncratic, wry and unique, this small volume is both companion to and descendant of Mark 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 poem expands on its namesake poem—gives 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. Another Tupelo book that looks at the meaning of what it is to create.

by Mark Yakich

Idiosyncratic, wry and unique, this small volume is both companion to and descendant of Mark 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 poem expands on its namesake poem—gives 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. Another Tupelo book that looks at the meaning of what it is to create.

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About the Author

Mark Yakich’s first book of poems, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group, Waiting to Cross, was a winner of the 2003 National Poetry Series. He is an assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant.

Advanced Praise:

The online journal Blackbird has published a review of Mark Yakich’s The Making of Collateral Beauty, which concludes:

In short, Collateral Beauty is a virtuoso performance, serious play that demands a suspension of the usual expectations of narrative, allusion, and textual commentary. The tensions here lie in the multiple possibilities that any image or fragment of a tale presents to a truly inventive imagination and in the reader’s willingness to sit back and enjoy the ride.

Format: paperback
ISBN: 978-1-932195-22-4