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Late Summer Ode
Late Summer Ode | Olena Kalytiak Davis
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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.
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Late Summer Ode | Olena Kalytiak Davis
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^^p37 Love the housebuilding second-guessing ridiculousness of “Poolhouse Plans.”

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it all happened, it all happened
i(t all) ripened, gladdened, slackened, saddened

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today I walked my racism in a harness collar
through flatbush, through ditmas park
i called it buck. i told it to heel, heel, heal.

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have you seen the light in
_________‘s studio? that light.
there, all is order and beauty,
luxe calme et volupté.

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Late Summer Ode | Olena Kalytiak Davis
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When you shoot this hard & confidently, there will be some wild misses & some truly beautiful hits. Just-past-middle-age poems of remembrance & evaluation & confusion & compromise & decline & regret. Some lines so spot-on & evocative, some seemingly wishing for failure. I love this abandon, but the failed stanzas are real. Includes a set of sonnets, not really a form made for wandering. Details as precision or as inside jokes? 2022