{"product_id":"the-poem-she-didnt-write-and-other-poems-9781556594601","title":"The Poem She Didn't Write and Other Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHonored as one of \"Nine Great Poetry Books of the Year\" by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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.\" —Dan Chaisson, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Davis''s 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.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOlena Kalytiak Davis revivifies language as she addresses, with a heightened post-confessional directness, lost love, sexual violence, and the confrontations of aging. With her characteristic syntactical play, sly slips of meaning, and all-out feminism, Davis hyper-consciously erases the rulebook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Not This\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003emy god all the days we have lived thru\u003cbr\u003esaying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003enot this\u003cbr\u003eone, not this,\u003cbr\u003enot now,\u003cbr\u003enot yet, this week\u003cbr\u003edoesn''t count, was lost, this month\u003cbr\u003ewas shit, what a year, it sucked,\u003cbr\u003eit flew, that decade was for\u003cbr\u003ewhat? i raised my kids, they\u003cbr\u003egrew i lost two pasts . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlena Kalyiak Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is a first-generation Ukrainian-American who was born and raised in Detroit. Educated at Wayne State University, the University of Michigan Law School, and Vermont College, she is the author of three books of poetry and currently works as a lawyer in Anchorage, Alaska.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359612272983,"sku":"9781556594601","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556594601.jpg?v=1754125172","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-poem-she-didnt-write-and-other-poems-9781556594601","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}