Books by Laynie Browne

From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes Translating the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.

Fiction. "Laynie Browne channels the energy of Mira in a book that is both charred and luminous. Her writing is a gift of abrasion, making the body of the reader a portal too. Who is arriving? Who is very near? The intensity of this narrative carried me through the summer in which I read it. Browne is a genius of aperture and stance. All desire, she has written a remarkable book. It changes something to read it (the book) and to have it near. If you are reading these words, then you have found your way to Browne's work and her immense, compassionate and tender genius as a writer and a human being."--Bhanu Kapil

A poetic elegy exploring birth and loss

Laynie Browne investigates the limits and potential of the world before memory, before language and before the senses have separated, in her book of poetry, Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. Browne guides the reader through the intricate development of human perception.