Mishka Zakharin presents two of his poetry anthologies -- 'Big, Naughty Monkey' and 'The Mad God' -- in a single, hardcover edition. . . both written in the same approximate time frame, yet each expressing its own distinct tone... an interesting mix of the opposing polarities of a somewhat bleak reality, but with an underlying tone of optimism... Mishka provides creativity and lyricism, philosophy and inaneness, morose subjectivity and shenanigans of mythic proportion...