Strange Trades blends performances of language, verbal play, and narrative fragmentation with more conventional lyric approaches. Exploring the ways that sense is led or revealed via sound-texture, the collection frequently addresses the intellectual, domestic, and perception-based experiences of women. The poet Campbell McGrath has said of Odelius's work: "In her passionate whimsy she invokes influences from Wallace Stevens to the Robert Desnos praised by her 'Virgins of Chicago', marvelous creatures who 'who work nights at Federal/Screw Products'. Deft, dry-witted, fabulistic and musical, these are poems to be savored." Strange Trades is the first full-length collection by Kristy Odelius.
- | Author: Kristy Odelius
- | Publisher: Shearsman Books
- | Publication Date: Oct 15, 2008
- | Number of Pages: 92 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1905700849
- | ISBN-13: 9781905700844
