Published Work
Books
Read ‘em and weep.
But, for real, you might weep.
Poetry Books
Dovetail Down the House
“I like the arrogant flick of love in these words. Tactile, muscled, and angry with desire, these poems reach for you. If you’re alone at the end of this book it’s because you dove from love’s edge and you have chosen your loneliness.”
- Emily Kendal Frey
“Techno-savvy though she is, Kallie Falandays loves paper (references to it frame Dovetail Down the House) but often it’s not poems on paper that remind me of her so much, but artwork: the fantastical, perspective-reorienting work of, say, Escher and Chagall. And from that intriguingly parallel universe, Falandays casts her eye back on our own, investigating the highs and lows of fever-heat passion so intensely, she could blister the wall paint off an Escher house and set Chagall’s winged goats and upside-down cows to dancing their hooves off. Watch out! ‘The wind./Coming to eat you.’”
- Albert Goldbarth
“This book tells me that letters on a page are the ghostly dust of one's own body, ‘the opposite side of [one's] skin.' On these pages, an ocean bleeds its rain. On these pages, ‘we wolf the burn.' When we flip one particular page's table over, we can naughtily and hauntingly and sadly rub its legs. Dovetail Down the House is an essay on grief (in poems) and a haunted-house-opera (even though the book inquires about ‘the opposite of opera') and a making of a lovely-as-lips body out of text, a zombie lover/a window in the mouth. Kallie Falandays writes, ‘Your face was dripping in my head all morning' and I think that this is the most perfect articulation of grief and sadness and weight. And like Falandays, I deeply feel ‘the sadness of not being able to be nothing' even as I revel in material reality: doorknobs and vampire movies and bedsheets and how ‘everyone everywhere is twirling their hair.’"
- Olivia Cronk
Children’s Books
The Cricket and the Very Old Very Little Lady
“A beautiful story about friendships. A lovely read for anyone, especially children. Brava to Ms. Falandays on her warm metaphorical collection that will capture your heart!”
- Elizabeth Strauss
“This book is so lovely and it truly gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling that you get when someone shows kindness and compassion in this sometimes dark and scary world. Kallie Falandays perfectly embodied what it is to be human in her off-the-beaten-path story line which involves an unexpected connection between two beings who share the simple joys of life together. It is perfectly written and the illustrations emphasize the story so well. I think every baby should have this book in their home, and every adult for that matter!!”
- K.B.
“This book is so beautifully written! It's short and sweet, but so profound in the message that it shares. A book I will read long after my kids are too old to sit by my side and listen.”
- Katie
