In her stunning second collection, poet Olena Kalytiak Davis confirms her reputation as a breathtaking verbal acrobat, a daredevil on the high wire of life and love. Her deeply personal poems echo everything from nursery rhymes to classics, revealing poetry buried in ordinary speech. Whether remonstrating with a former lover or evoking her young children, the poet who reveals herself here is appealingly vulnerable yet gutsy, by turns blunt and tender. With dexterity and wit she stretches language to the wildest boundaries of poetic possibility: hers is a voice intimate and assured, her observations of the world delivered in love notes addressed to us all. "did I mention my first kiss was extractedby someone who never should have been thatlucky?" - From ""Keep Some Stuff for Yourself"" Olena Kalytiak Davis's first collection, "And Her Soul out of Nothing," was selected by Rita Dove for the Brittingham Prize for poetry. She has been chosen for inclusion in three Best American Poetry anthologies, and has received a Rona Jaffee Foundation Writers' Award and a Pushcart Prize. She lives and writes in Anchorage, Alaska.In her second collection, following the widely celebrated "And Her Soul out of Nothing," Davis offers deeply personal and unpredictable poems that echo everything from nursery rhymes to the classics while always revealing the poetry buried in ordinary speech. Whether remonstrating with a former lover or evoking her young children, the poet we encounter here is appealingly vulnerable yet gutsy, by turns sexually blunt and tender. With great dexterity and wit Davis stretches language to the wildest boundaries of poetic possibility. Hers is a voice at once intimate and assured, her observations of the world delivered in love notes addressed to us all: "did I mention my first kiss was extracted " "by someone who never should have been that " "lucky? and how much later I threw " "my virginity and, later still, my vanity" "away? " "probably" "There is such a deep spiritual quest, such a tremendous inner hunger, at the heart of Olena Kalytiak Davis's radically fractured and ironic idiom that I feel as if I have been reading Hopkins through the lens of a shattered postmodern mirror. This convulsive book--at times funny, at times sick at heart--refracts and defends a wondrous light."--Edward Hirsch, author of "Lay Back the Darkness" and "On Love " "Olena Kalytiak Davis writes poems of visionary rapture and longing, and of erotic loss and fulfillment. Formally and musically, she is in love with tradition and out to wring its neck. She trusts her own idiosyncrasy and nerve to lead her to what Frost called 'a momentary stay against confusion.'"--Tom Sleigh, author of "The Dreamhouse" " These] sonnets and other importunities are completely energized, full of the evidence of the new thing they are. Davis has made herself herself, well beyond a mere style (though there is nothing mere about her style, of which there is plenty)--a scary thing (to make yourself yourself), a thing few poets seem to be inclined to do these days. For that alone I bow in her direction."--David Rivard, author "Bewitched Playground"
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评分我是一个对语言美感要求很高的读者,而这本书在语言运用上达到了近乎炫技的程度。作者的遣词造句充满了古典的韵味,但又巧妙地融入了现代的犀利感,形成了一种非常独特的文体。句子长度不一,时而如涓涓细流般绵密,时而如惊雷炸响般干脆有力。我甚至会因为某个词语的选用而忍不住停下来,细细体会它在那个特定语境下的精确性。这本书读起来,与其说是阅读故事,不如说是在欣赏一首精心谱写的交响乐。它对于“沉默”的描绘尤为出色,很多时候,角色之间没有对白,但空气中弥漫的紧张感和未说出口的话语,比任何长篇大论都更有力量。我推荐给那些对文学形式本身有高度兴趣的读者,这本书无疑是语言艺术的一个绝佳范本。它迫使你慢下来,去品味每一个音节是如何被精心放置的。
评分这本书简直是一场文学的奇遇,作者似乎拥有一种魔力,能将日常的琐碎打磨成闪耀的宝石。我花了整整一个周末才将它读完,但那种沉浸感让我完全忘记了时间的流逝。书中对人与人之间复杂情感的刻画,细腻得如同画家笔下最精微的线条。它不是那种直白地告诉你“爱就是什么”的作品,而是通过一系列精心编排的场景和对话,让你自己去拼凑、去感受那种深刻的共鸣。特别是其中关于“失落与重塑”的主题,那种带着痛楚却又无比坚韧的生命力,在我心中久久回荡。我尤其欣赏作者对于环境细节的捕捉,那些看似不经意的背景描写,其实都默默地推动着角色的内心变化。阅读体验如同品尝一杯陈年的佳酿,初入口可能略显平淡,但回味悠长,每一次呼吸之间,都能品出不同的层次感。这本书无疑为我提供了一个绝佳的避风港,让我暂时逃离现实的喧嚣,沉浸在一个更真实、更丰沛的内心世界里。我强烈推荐给那些对人性深度探索抱有兴趣的读者,它绝对值得你投入时间和心力去细细品味。
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