Description
“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 Simulacra
Poetry. Hybrid.
Author Bio
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.
Author City: WALLINGFORD, PA USA