"Essays. "This book is about perspectives, in many ways challenging stereotypical views of working-class culture and art with the authentic accounts of those who live and work there... The conflict between what is said and what we know, what we hear about our culture and what we experience creates a tension that many seek to remedy through expression. We found the prime motivator of most working-class writing is the drive to bridge ..."
Nixon and I(1stEdition) (Wick Poetry Chapbook Series) by KarenKovacik Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 1998 by The Kent State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87338-592-3, ISBN: 0-87338-592-6
"“Karen Kovacik’s poems are strong, distinctive and thoroughly wonderful works. Her personal poems such as ‘Watching My Father Pray’ make use of autobiographical detail in a way that is never insular or hermetic. And her Richard Nixon persona poems are stunning, brave, and original. American poetry, and American writing in general, tends to be sadly ahistorical, and the way these poems take on one of history’s most loved and hated figure ..."