Laynie Browne is the author of nine collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent books are The Scented Fox (Wave Books, 2007, winner of the National Poetry Series), and Daily Sonnets (Counterpath Press, 2007). She is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Arizona and one of the directors of the POG reading series in Tucson, Arizona.
"Motherhood and housewifery and other worldly concerns of the female artist-provider ride rampant here in this bustling exploding book of prose & poem meditations. One of our best writers does it again" (Anne Waldman). Prose, verse, letters, and plays, The Desires of Letters is a passionate commentary on writing, mothering, and the navigation of politics, community, and imagination. An homage to Bernadette Mayer's The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, the book begins at the onset of the 2003 Iraq war and becomes "transformative . . . [in] its negotiation of the global and the domestic, beauty made bittersweet with annoyance and exhaustion, all that advice about how to raise a child and write at the same time" (Juliana Spahr).
