Jan 28, 2010
Seattle, WA – 01/28/10 – Open Books: A Poem Emporium – Olena Kalytiak David and Kary Wayson
By: readinglocalseattle Categories: Events
| Who | Olena Kalytiak David and Kary Wayson |
| When |
Thursday, January 28, 2010
7:30pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
2414 N. 45th St.
Seattle, WA, USA 98103 Open Books: A Poem Emporium is a bookstore in Seattle, WA devoted to poetry and poetry-related titles. Their inventory, now at over 9,000 titles and growing, includes new, used, and out-of-print books from a wide variety of publishers. They also carry a selection of poetry audio tapes, compact discs, and video tapes. They strive to keep our shelves eclectic and welcome suggestions for additions to the stock. |
| Other Info | On the Kitchen Table From Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed ($12.50) is the snappy title of Olena Kalytiak Davis’s recent chapbook. Her poems carry confession to wild, modern heights (mocking the lyrical "I" -- "'i'" knows 'i' is alone in her red truck") and to somber, classical depths (writing from the point of view of Francesca, an adulterer in Dante’s Inferno). Love and sex, the having, remembering, and losing of, is palpable here. Davis’s work seems nearly boundless, and self-aware enough to address the sadness inherent in that "nearly." Kary Wayson’s first full-length collection, American Husband ($13.95 Ohio State) sparks with passion and cracklingly musical language. Love, lust, pain, self-deprecation ("silly thing, to feel / disheveled in front of a flower") all push her poems along at a wholly controlled, breakneck pace. Singular imagery complements her jazzy sound -- "The body’s a closet / with cats in the back. / The sea’s grown woolen / and white. I am / his considerable widow / now one syllable / bigger than wife." |
