"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 conversations 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
"Narrative? Kind of. Lyric? Sort of. Mark Pawlak takes his own versions (found and otherwise) and has turned them inside-out to celebrate how insane and touching language can be: from 'perks' to 'Pappa Oom Mow Mow' - go on and shake it, baby!" -Kimiko Hahn
