Late Summer Ode

Davis’s poems are empowering and vulnerable, honest andembodied. In Late Summer Ode, Olena Kalytiak Davis writes froma heightened state of ambivalence, perched between past and present tensions.With Chekovian humor and metered pathos, from a garden in Anchorage not piningfor Brooklyn, these poems “self -protest, -process, -recede.” Davis is aconductor of sound and meaning, precise to the syllable: a commanding talent incontemporary poetry.