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A first-generation Ukrainian American, Olena Kalytiak Davis grew up in Detroit and was educated at Wayne State University, the University of Michigan Law School, and Vermont College. Davis's poetry collections include And Her Soul Out of Nothing (1997), selected by Rita Dove for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities (2003), On the Kitchen Table from Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed (2009), and The Poem She Didn't Write and Other Poems (2014). Her approach to motherhood, intimacy, and small moments in life through sonnets and free verse captivates audiences and draws emotions with simple yet personal usage of words and language. Critic Dan Chiasson referred to Davis as ""the rare poet who has made underproduction an aspect of her glamour.""
Praise for Late Summer Ode Defined by contradiction and balanced between past and present, these poems explore selfhood and place. -Publishers Weekly Praise for Olena Kalytiak Davis The effect is more like being an actor in a play, moved by the gusts of emotion that move your character, than like being a member of the audience. This discomfiting proximity, this unsought intimacy, is the fundamental pleasure of poetry. Davis's poems plunge us right into the heart of it. -The New Yorker As the work progresses, Davis toys with the notions of joy and sorrow, making both emotions newly understandable in the poet's unique worldview...Davis offers readers plenty to linger over. -Publishers Weekly Olena Kalytiak Davis takes intimacy to task, exploring the sexual modality through a candid inner voice, unyielding in its dealings with humanity's need for connection... In Davis's poems, carnal knowledge has found its bone, exes mark the spot, and post-confessional meta-meditations ride the F train. -Boston Review When a new poetry collection by Olena Kalytiak Davis drops, we expect a revolution...No other contemporary writer has pushed the relationship between poet, speaker, text, and body quite like Davis. -Green Mountain Review Of course Davis has been compared to poets like Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton for her wildness, for her unapologetic sexiness, for her metaphorical and rhythmic fortitude, but the comparison is unfair; Davis is neither of these poets. Instead, Olena K. Davis is of which the Plath and Sexton would've probably been jealous. -Poetry International
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