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Continuing the western tradition of ""bastard ghazals"" that do not hold to the form or intent of the 13thcentury Sufi mystics who wrote of religious devotion and erotic longing, these poems are collagestracing a route at the edges of suburban houses filled with doppelganger children, county jails andflophouse hotels, Sonny Liston and Geechie Wiley, Maurice Sendak and the Lindburgh baby, PhilipGuston, Willie Bobo, recidivist airline stowaways, and the numinous messages left between the cloudsand garbage dumpsters.These poems breathe in a space framed by psychoanalyst Michael Eigen: ""We are part of one greatparadoxical monism, a wholeness that thrives on fragmentary processes, bits and pieces throbbing withsignificance,"" and the poet Charles Simic, ""The poem is an attempt at self-recovery, self-recognition, self-remembering, the marvel of being again... A poem is a piece of the unutterable whole.""

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""I like the meat of these poems, the tear and slap of them. I still feel them between my teeth long after reading them. Zak Mucha has a toughness and a way of bringing blood to the page that I admire. But I wouldn't get confused about what you are eating when you are reading these words: he is serving you his own heart."" - Jessa Crispin, founder of Bookslut, author of My Three Dads ""Unlike most human beings, Zak Mucha is able to look clearly at the natural state of man and not burst into flames... anyone who finds Mucha's paintbrush too coarsely bristled is a coward and a liar."" -Rennie Sparks, The Handsome Family

"""I like the meat of these poems, the tear and slap of them. I still feel them between my teeth long after reading them. Zak Mucha has a toughness and a way of bringing blood to the page that I admire. But I wouldn't get confused about what you are eating when you are reading these words: he is serving you his own heart."" - Jessa Crispin, founder of Bookslut, author of My Three Dads ""Unlike most human beings, Zak Mucha is able to look clearly at the natural state of man and not burst into flames... anyone who finds Mucha's paintbrush too coarsely bristled is a coward and a liar."" -Rennie Sparks, The Handsome Family"

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Zak Mucha, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He spent seven years working as the supervisor of an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, providing 24/7 services to persons suffering from severe psychosis, substance abuse issues, and homelessness. He is a board member for the Legislative Drafting Institute for Child Protection and the author of Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense and Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work.More can be found at www.zakmucha.com.

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