{"product_id":"the-poem-she-didnt-write-olena-kalytiak-davis-9781556594595","title":"The Poem She Didn't Write and Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonored as one of \"Nine Great Poetry Books of 2014\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Poem She Didn't Write\u003c\/i\u003e is a breakup book, full of the kinds of invective and taunts honed by a person who has spent, as all of us have now spent, infinite hours online. Its complex tones arise from the poet's wanting equally to seduce and to repel a lover whose deepening silence only provokes rhetorical escalation. The effect can be like reading e-mails in someone's drafts folder--but who wouldn't want to read Davis's drafts?\"--Dan Chiasson, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Davis' first full collection in a decade should be stamped with the warning, 'Buckle up!, ' because entering this writer's mind is one wild ride of digression, mutation, and syntactical and typographical experimentation... Davis has clearly put the poetic rule book through a shredder, and there's much to appreciate about that.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"There is an eerie precision to her work--like the delicate discernment of a brain surgeon's scalpel--that renders each moment in both its absolute clarity and ultimate transitory fragility.\"--Rita Dove\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her first full collection in a decade, Olena Kalytiak Davis revivifies language and makes love offerings to her beloved reader. With a heightened post-confessional directness, she addresses lost love, sexual violence, and the confrontations of aging. In her characteristic syntactical play, sly slips of meaning, and all-out feminism, Davis hyperconsciously erases the rulebook in this memorable collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"The Poem She Didn't Write\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ebegan\u003cbr\u003ewhen she stopped\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ebegan in winter and, like everything else, at first, just waited for spring\u003cbr\u003ein spring noticed there were lilac branches, but no desire, \u003cbr\u003eno need to talk to any angel, to say: sky, dooryard, _______, \u003cbr\u003ewhen summer arrived there was more, but not much\u003cbr\u003enothing really worth noting\u003cbr\u003eand then it was winter again--nothing had changed: sky, dooryard, ________, white, \u003cbr\u003efrozen was the lake and the lagoon, some froze the ocean\u003cbr\u003e(now you erase that) (you cross that out)\u003cbr\u003eand so on and so forth . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlena Kalytiak Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is a first-generation Ukrainian American who was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Educated at Wayne State University, the University of Michigan Law School, and Vermont College, she is the author of three books of poetry. She currently works as a lawyer in Anchorage, Alaska.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Olena Kalytiak Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1556594593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556594595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/09\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/08\/2014 pg. 92\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Olena Kalytiak Davis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43939612655871,"sku":"9781556594595","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_373eb8e2-b5bf-4054-943e-2af57dc822e9.jpg?v=1681442512","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-poem-she-didnt-write-olena-kalytiak-davis-9781556594595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}