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From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes
Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.
A propos de l'auteur
Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, teacher and editor. She is author of fourteen collections of poems and four books of fiction. Recent publications include: a book of poems,
In Garments Worn by Lindens, a novel,
Periodic Companions, and a book of short fiction,
The Book of Moments. 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),
The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, UK), and
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (W.W. Norton). 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, 2013) and edited the anthology
A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel (Nightboat, 2020). Honors and awards include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award for her collection
The Scented Fox, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award for her collection
Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. She teaches at University of Pennsylvania and at Swarthmore College.
Résumé
From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.
Préface
- Digital galley and print review copy mailings to major book reviews, literary journals, and library buyers' guides.
- Author interview pitches.
- Social media campaign.
- Outreach to independent booksellers, especially in PA and NY.
- Outreach to poetry and related literary organizations, including CD Wright Conference.
- Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author events.
- Display at conferences and bookfairs including Brooklyn Book Festival and especially AWP in Pittsburg for 2022, as Laynie lives near there.
- Co-op available
Texte suppl.
It's everybody's biography, always "not yet begun," as well as the list of directions, questions, and observations for provoking an investigation into the interior of a life keenly attentive to the resonance of other lives. The reader recognizes herself as the I, the you, the character in a novel, someone missing, someone alive again—illuminated, self-conscious, caught in the act. Like C.D. Wright, whose work inspires the title, Laynie Browne is hilarious at a slant, provocative, and touching. Her language, which makes everything happen, has an incomparably swervy brilliance.
—Forrest Gander
