CAROL V. DAVIS
Sunday, February 17 at 4 p.m.

A poet of Russian/Ukrainian/Yiddish descent who did took a graduate degree at the University of Washington and now teaches at Santa Monica College, Carol Davis returns to her onetime Seattle home city to read from her T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection of poetry, Into the Arms of Pushkin: Poems of St. Petersburg (Truman State). "Rich, resonant, Russian—these alliterative adjectives barely begin to describe the charisma of Carol Davis's evocative engagement with Pushkin, St. Petersburg, and a mythic yet quotidian country ... Davis's wonderful poems transcend the 'struggle of translation' between one culture and another." – Sandra M. Gilbert. "Struggling to speak a new language, while immersing herself in Russian culture becomes Carol V. Davis's trope for a spiritual quest in this book-length narrative of sensuous, tangible, shapeshifting poems." – Diane Wakoski.

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