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Olena Kalytiak Davis

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January 01, 1963

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American poet Olena Kalytiak Davis was born in 1963. She is the author of two poetry collections: 'And Her Soul Out Of Nothing' and 'Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, And Other Off-And-Back Handed Importunities.'

Her first book won the Brittingham Prize. Her other honors include a a 1996 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in poetry, and a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry.

Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including AGNI, Field, Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, Post Road Magazine and in anthologies including 'Best American Poetry 1995' and 'Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century.'

She is a first-generation Ukrainian-American, and grew up in Detroit,...more

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Books by Olena Kalytiak Davis

Average rating: 4.12 · 473 ratings · 52 reviews · 3 distinct works

	And Her Soul Out Of Nothing 4.28 avg rating — 297 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities 3.83 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	On the Kitchen Table from Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Olena Kalytiak Davis

“The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things called souls”
― Olena Kalytiak Davis, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing

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“O, to be stung by an errant bee. O, to sting.
O, to see you again. Covered in spring.”
― Olena Kalytiak Davis, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing

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