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"The balance of rigidity, rhyme and ruin . . . makes an Olena Kalytiak Davis poem extraordinarily distinct. Even when she’s alluding to Dante and Rilke and Chekhov, her voice is like no one else’s.”—New York Times, Editors ChoiceIn Late Summer Ode, Olena Kalytiak Davis writes froma heightened state of ambivalence, perched between past and present tensions.With Chekovian humor and metered pathos, from a garden in Anchorage not piningfor Brooklyn, these poems “self -protest, -process, -recede.” Davis is aconductor of sound and meaning, precise to the syllable: a commanding talent incontemporary poetry.

Now in paperback, "Shattered Sonnets breathes life into American verse . . . [an] urgent and unrepentant collection" (Poetry).

This is the first book by this author, a first-generation Ukrainian-American, resident in Alaska. The collection was the winner of the 1997 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.