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"Laynie Browne's LETTERS INSCRIBED IN SNOW navigates the complexity of personhood and questions what constitutes a material and immaterial being. In a series of ever-fascinating epistles, notes, and scenes, Browne deftly interrogates what informs a fictional or real life, and whether the real and the imagined are a distinction without a difference. Enter this text and you'll enter the lush thoughtscape of the poet as philosopher, unafraid to plumb the depths and probe the heights."--Airea Dee Matthews, author of
SimulacraPoetry. Hybrid.
About the author
Laynie Browne's recent publications include: a book of poems,
Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022), a novel, PERIODIC COMPANIONS (Tinderbox Editions, 2018), and a book of short fiction, THE BOOK OF MOMENTS (Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2018). Her work has appeared in journals such as
Conjunctions,
A Public Space,
New American Writing,
The Brooklyn Rail, and in anthologies including:
The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2020),
The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street Editions, 2020), and
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013). Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Catalan. She co-edited the anthology I'LL DROWN MY BOOK: CONCEPTUAL WRITING BY WOMEN (Les Figues Press, 2012) and edited the anthology
A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel (Nightboat Books, 2021). Honors and awards include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award for her collection
The Scented Fox (Wave Books, 2007), and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award for her collection
Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (University of Georgia Press, 2005). She teaches at University of Pennsylvania.
