Cover Art: Eleanor Bennett, Cover & Interior Design: Alban Fischer
96 pages
May 2013, ISBN 978-1-936919-14-7
About Tanya Olson
Tanya Olson lives in Silver Spring, Maryland and is a Lecturer in English at UMB (University of Maryland, Baltimore County). Her first book, Boyishly, was published by YesYes Books in 2013 and received a 2014 American Book Award. In 2010, she won a Discovery/Boston Review prize and she was named a 2011 Lambda Fellow by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her poem 54 Prince was chosen for inclusion in Best American Poems 2015 by Sherman Alexie.
Boyishly by Tanya Olson (Digital)
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About Boyishly
Winner, American Book Award, Poetry, 2014
Tanya Olson’s magnificent poems carry the weight of giants, tigers, and The People’s Acts of Love. Every page is a new cleansing fire.
—CA Conrad
Olson uses language like Gertrude Stein does, building large monuments of sound into humming lattices. Olson writes poems to a future America from beyond the planetary gravestone where there is only a ‘boyish summer’ and "boyish waters."
—Dorothea Lasky
Tanya Olson’s poems channel personal experience through myriad adopted voices, speaking through dreams, letters, and imagined historical scenes. Olson turns fresh eyes on archetypal figures and myths, relationships and legends, and landmark failures and successes. By turns vindictive, benevolent, and laudatory, these poems urge us to press toward change by constantly revisiting the past.
Reviews & Interviews
Review by Lindsay King-Miller at Muzzle Magazine
Review by Weston Cutter at Fanzine
Review by Joellen Craft at storySouth
Review by Michael Mlekoday at Blurbed
Interview with DeWitt Brenson at PANK
Interview with First Book Interviews
