Tupelo Press - The Making of Collateral Beauty by Mark Yakich

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	$9.95 pb ISBN: 978-1-932195-22-4 Order Now! Go to Checkout

Winner of the 2004 Snowbound Series Award, judged by Mary Ruefle. Idiosyncratic, wry and unique, 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 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.		People who bought The Making of Collateral Beauty also bought: Animal Gospels Bend

Reviews
	The online journal Blackbird has published 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." You can read the entire review at their web site. The journal, Diagram, 6.1, has published a review of *The Making of Collateral Beauty*.