"[ Shattered Sonnets ] breathes life into American verse . . . [an] urgent and unrepentant collection."—Rick Moody, Poetry "This convulsive book [ Shattered Sonnets ]—at times funny, at times sick at heart—refracts and defends a wondrous light."—Edward HirschOlena Kalytiak Davis's Shattered Sonnets has earned «cult classic» status and is an unremittingly electrifying collection brimming with intelligence, humor, and ardor. Drawing on an...
Honored as one of «Nine Great Poetry Books of 2014»— The New Yorker “ The Poem She Didn’t Write 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...
