Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. "As if each hypothesis were a parasol which slightly changed the light, Laynie Browne's poems contain privileged messages from the spirit world that must be shielded from the direct rays of reality because such information might so easily disintegrate, remaining unrecognizable under the harsh glare and preoccupied manner of contemporary scrutiny. In their hushed, yet deliberate path, these works constitute a labyrinth, a gentle, ritual encircling of the tidal voice of alchemy; whose secrets are not offered to be revealed but to be reveled in,and then departed from, so that their unknowable nature may remain untouched, permitting us to leave transformed--and exhilarated"--Nick Piombino.
Synopsis
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 poetry).E Mermaid's Purseshowers its complex gifts on the included reader, never the same way twice. Lee Ann Brown
About the Author
Laynie Browne was born and grew up in Los Angeles. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, and Brown University and was awarded The Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative Poetry three times. She is the author of a novel and nine collections of poetry, most recently ROSEATE, POINTS OF GOLD (Dusie Press, 2010), THE DESIRES OF LETTERS (Counterpath Press, 2010), THE SCENTED FOX (Wave Books, 2007, winner of the National Poetry Series), and DAILY SONNETS (Counterpath Press, 2007). Browne is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Arizona and one of the directors of the POG reading series in Tucson, Arizona.