Synopses & Reviews
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 sense of meaning.
Laynie Browne was born in 1966 and grew up in Los Angeles. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including Daily Sonnets and Mermaid’s Purse. She has taught creative writing at the University of Washington Bothell and Mills College.
Synopsis
This National Poetry Series-winning collection emerges from half-remembered fairy tales and reconstructed dreams.
Synopsis
Poetry. National Poetry Series winner selected by Alice Notley. Laynie Browne's sixth collection emerges from half-remembered fairy tales and reconstructed dreams. In these fragmented poetic spells, characters disappear and re-emerge, their charms reconfigured, their stories unraveling, their happy endings elusive. Laynie Browne was born in 1966, and grew up in LosAngeles. She has taught creative writing at University of Washington Bothell, and Mills College.
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.