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Published on 31. May 2006
Book
Hardback
111 pages
978-1-931236-60-7 (ISBN)
Description
Poetry. "Mark Pawlak's poems document a literary journey charged with the sheer joy of words and often with fierce irony. He finds poetry in day-to-day common language, and makes his poems from snippets of remembered conversation and comment, from restaurant serving mats, the phone book and, most pointedly, from the news. Pawlak's sophisticated use of irony allows him to precisely slice through governmental double-talk and the slanted reportage of our time to expose the contradictions, errors and lies inherent in the rhetoric of power brokers and political spin doctors. He is our most politically conscious poet and, as such, puts conscience back into poetry where it is sorely needed" --Michael Basinski, Curator, The Poetry Room, SUNY Buffalo.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-931236-60-7 (9781931236607)
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This is Mark Pawlak's fifth poetry collection, the other most recent titles being Special Handling: Newspaper Poems New and Selected and All the News. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2006 (Billy Collins, ed.), New American Writing, Off the Coast, Pemmican, and The Saint Ann's Review, among other places. In addition, he is editor of four anthologies, most recently, Present/Tense: Poets in the World, a collection of contemporary American political poetry, featuring work from some of the country's best-known writers. Pawlak is Director of Academic Support Programs as the University of Massachusetts Boston, where his also teaches mathematics. He has been the recipient of two Massachusetts Artist Fellowship awards. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and his teenage son.