Sivvy by Lauren Davis
Published June 2024
PDF Micro-chapbook

“Written on the edge of Madness,” Lauren Davis’ Sivvy, a book of erasure poems from the letters written by Sylvia Plath, is a masterful collection that mesmerizingly captures the desperate spirit and tragic essence of Plath’s posthumous presence. Davis' poems honor Sylvia and, most importantly, craft also a work of erasure art where her own voice comes alive within the beautiful grim word choices of Plath’s epistolary work. ‘The writer in me— / that is where / I live’ from ‘January 22, 1963,’ reflects the magical unification of Davis and Plath into this chapbook that is the perfect addition to the canon of tributes honoring Sivvy. Those who are devotees of Sylvia must devour this masterwork that not only pays homage but crafts the kind of poems that Plath herself would love to experience from beyond.”
–      Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, author of La Belle Ajar

Lauren Davis is the author of the forthcoming short story collection The Nothing (YesYes Books), the poetry collection Home Beneath the Church (Fernwood Press), the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize short-listed When I Drowned (Kelsay Books), and the chapbooks Each Wild Thing’s Consent (Poetry Wolf Press), The Missing Ones (Winter Texts), and Sivvy (Whittle Micro-Press). She holds an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. She is a former Editor in Residence at The Puritan’s Town Crier, and she is the winner of the Landing Zone Magazine’s Flash Fiction Contest. Her stories, essays, poetry, interviews, and reviews have appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies including Prairie Schooner, Spillway, Poet Lore, Ibbetson Street, Ninth Letter and elsewhere. Davis lives with her husband and two black cats on the Olympic Peninsula in a Victorian seaport community.