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Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities

by Olena Kalytiak Davis

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ISBN13: 9781582343525
ISBN10: 1582343527
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In her stunning second collection, poet Olena Kalytiak Davis confirms her reputation as a breathtaking verbal acrobat, a daredevil on the high wire of life and love. Her deeply personal poems echo everything from nursery rhymes to classics, revealing poetry buried in ordinary speech. Whether remonstrating with a former lover or evoking her young children, the poet who reveals herself here is appealingly vulnerable yet gutsy, by turns blunt and tender. With dexterity and wit she stretches language to the wildest boundaries of poetic possibility: hers is a voice intimate and assured, her observations of the world delivered in love notes addressed to us all. "did I mention my first kiss was extracted by someone who never should have been that lucky?" - From ""Keep Some Stuff for Yourself""

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"And Her Soul Out of Nothing is unlike any other collection I can remember reading in recent literature. There is an eerie precision to Daviss work that renders each moment in both its absolute clarity and ultimate fragility."
(Rita Dove)

About the Author

Olena Kalytiak Davis's first collection, And Her Soul Out of Nothing, was selected by Rita Dove for the Brittingham Prize for poetry in 1997. She has been included in three Best American Poetry anthologies and has received a Rona Jaffee Foundation writers award and a Pushcart Prize. She lives and writes in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Mary Schott, February 17, 2008 (view all comments by Mary Schott)
This is a book I will seriously consider for my 16-year old daughter. She writes poetry beautifully and appreciates the loving longings of others. I will keep her apprised of your offerings.
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ISBN:
9781582343525
Author:
Davis, Olena Kalytiak
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Location:
New York
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Single Author / American
Subject:
Single Author / American
Edition Number:
1st U.S. ed.
Edition Description:
Us
Series Volume:
2000-209891, v. 43
Publication Date:
September 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
144
Dimensions:
860x558x66 67

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