Book review: New poetry collections by Olena Kalytiak Davis and Sara Eliza Johnson reward readers with both pleasure in language and proof of the resilience of the human spirit.
By Olena Kalytiak Davis; Copper Canyon Press, 2022; 113 pages; $17.In her fourth poetry collection, Olena Kalytiak Davis, of Anchorage and Brooklyn, New York, has established herself as a major American poet, publishing with a top poetry press and being reviewed in The New York Times Book Review.
Other poems are in the style of particular poets or respond to them. “After Rilke” and “After Chekhov” are clear about their influences. “The Death of Ivan Ilych” and “Tolstoyan Weather” pay homage to Tolstoy and his dark moods. The poems in “Vapor” are informed by scientific principles and facts, from the micro of cell mutations to the macro of wormholes and Saturn’s moons. In seven parts, the poems group around themes or forms. Again and again, the violence and transformation inherent in physics serve as metaphors for human trauma, loss, and recovery.
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