Laynie Browne is the recipient of the 2007 National Poetry Series award (chosen by Alice Notley) and the author of five full-length poetry collections. Most recent are Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (2005, University of Georgia Press, winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series), and Mermaid's Purse (Spuytenduyvil, 2005). Forthcoming is Original Presence, from Shivistan Books (2006). Her other collections are Pollen Memory (2003, Tender Buttons), The Agency of Wind (Avec Books, 1999), and Rebecca Letters (Kelsey Street, 1996). She is also the author of Acts of Levitation, a novel (2002, Spuytenduyvil). Recent chapbooks include The Desires of Letters (gong editions, 2005), Webs of Agriope (Phylum Press, 2005) and a collaboration with Lee Ann Brown titled Nascent Toolbox (The Owl Press, 2004).
In Daily Sonnets Laynie Browne charts new territory as she subtly investigates the daily influxes of the poetic moment. From longing for the family in the very midst of the family, to the play of the mind which mimics and shepherds the visible games of children, Browne offers here the mimesis of the possible, a moving reflection of action and intimacy, a letting go and a grasping of the poetic and the political, all in the firm hold of song.
DAILY SONNETS
