Strange Trades

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.