This is the first book by this author, a first-generation Ukrainian-American, resident in Alaska. The collection was the winner of the 1997 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.[...]
" "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 So[...]
..".entering this writer's mind is one wild ride."--"Booklist"""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 sedu[...]