Selected by Alice Notley for the National Poetry Series, Laynie Browne's sixth collection casts a spell. In these fragmented poetic tales, characters disappear and reemerge, their charms reconfigured, their stories unraveling, their happy endings elusive. The book's coda consists of a fantastical poetic dictionary, asking readers to redefine their ...
How do we experience the world before memory, before language, before the senses have separated, or before the concepts of "you" and "I" have been distinguished? Laynie Browne investigates both the limits and potential of such an inchoate world in her new book of poetry, Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. In a series of elegant prose poems, Browne ...
"Laynie Browne's "Rebecca Letters" mines family history in the character of one Rebecca Browne, the poet's ancestor, and those traces remaining that still night be struck for their resounding character What Lee Ann Brown calls "alchemically applied linguistics unfold the space between poem and prose, revealing a crepuscular zone 'where it's warm ...
This delightful book, beautifully published by Avec Books, follows Browne's Rebecca Letters (Kesley St.) and Lore (Instress) with more of her unique lightness of touch and capacious vison. C. D. Wright comments: "'Which way to the windmaker's door?/ If you want to know you'll have to ask the doormaker.' A riddling, wind-activated poem describing ...
Amelia has the ability to levitate. During her wanderings through dream galleries, costumed performances, and future libraries she meets Clara (an elusive photographer), Sebastion (part human, part lion) and a chorus of cynics who exist only in partial bodies. In this voyage into the illusion of identity, Laynie Browne serves us a psychological ...
Here, Laynie Browne shines as scientific mystic, as abstract storyteller.E She unfolds the natural world into new spaces and tales.E Language under the electron microscope: The starfish is neither star, nor fish.EE This is a completely revolutionary 'nature poetry' that is rapturously structural (like nature) and intuitively conceptual (like ...
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