Mark Yakich is a poet, novelist, painter, and the Gregory F. Curtin, S.J., Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans.

Other poems by Mark Yakich in Verse Daily:
April 11, 2017:   "Way, On This Plane All Face The Same" "And yet we shouldn't just sit..."
July 9, 2008:   "Chagall Takes a Prisoner" "Morning breaches a flying horse...."
October 8, 2006:   "Aerialist" " He's still as tall as ever..."
January 30, 2005:  "Dear Birds" "Much is made of the size of your heart...."

Books by Mark Yakich:

Other poems on the web by Mark Yakich:
"For My Daughter"
Three poems
Two poems
"Antidepressants"
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Four poems
Eigth poems
"Reluctant Prophet"
"New Love Poem"
"Naive Conviction"

Mark Yakich's Website.

Mark Yakich According to Wikipedia.

About Spiritual Exercises:

"'Tears often require technology' is just one of Yakich's canny observations in the spiritually pained and chilling poems of Spiritual Exercises. With an enviable spareness, these poems explore the conflux of faith and betrayal within the familial realm. While they spring from the kind of honesty that may well scare some readers senseless, there is much to be learned from the speaker's endeavor to test his own humanity."
—Cate Marvin

"St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises presuppose three kinds of thought: one from within, one from the good spirit, and one from the bad. Mark Yakich's Spiritual Exercises adds a fourth kind—one that sees everything from a startling perspective, while gasping for breath."
—H. L. Hix

"Poets from George Herbert to Gerard Manley Hopkins turned to the spiritual exercises of 16th century churchmen and mystics as models for their meditative poems. Mark Yakich's wise, loving, and often wry new book draws on that tradition, and renews it. Readers will find themselves tracing the thread of life from birth to death and back again, with many revelations along the way."
—Susan Stewart

"Mark Yakich is a poet of such violent tonal shifts that you feel the pulse of the human vibrating with all of its conundrums, contradictions, and longings—irony here becomes both poison and antidote, a homeopathic shot to help us navigate earthly and celestial tides."
—Catherine Barnett