Acts of Levitation

Laynie Browne

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Amelia has the ability to levitate. During her wanderings through dream galleries, costumed performances, and future libraries she meets Clara (an elusive photographer), Sebastion (part human, part lion) and a chorus of cynics who exist only in partial bodies. In this voyage into the illusion of identity, Laynie Browne serves us a psychological portrait of the creative act.

Book Details

Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2003
Pages: 232
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.42in - 5.42in - 0.65in - 0.71lb
EAN: 9781881471943
Categories: • General

About the Author

Browne, Laynie: - 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.

Praise for this book

This challenging first novel is a high-wire act of great beauty and invention. Part quest narrative, part ghost story, Acts of Levitation is ultimately a study in longing-for the "other" who might be lover or sibling, and for the "self" hidden in the center of a dream. Laynie Browne enlists all the colors of the spectrum, and then some, to spin her magic. Her writing unfolds like a pre-Raphaelite dawn, expanding outwards and always mesmerizing. -Lewis Warsh

An ultra femme, absolutely exquisite writing/vision. Acts is extraordinarily imaginative and remains with me as a luminous benchmark. -Lissa Wolsak

Part mystery and part Oz story, Acts is a narrative of exquisite disappearances and re-appearances...As always, Laynie Browne's work is ephemeral, complex, and alluring. -Lisa Jarnot

....an uncanny blend of grammar and history.

-Publishers Weekly (Rebecca Letters, 1997)

Like Scherherazade, Lewis Carroll, or the Shakespeare of the late romances, Browne possesses an ability to dazzle the reader by creating wondrous worlds in which the usual laws of plausibility are suspended. Indeed, her writing is saturated with the echoes, not only of these writers, but of numerous sources derived from the canon of fabulist literature. -Outlet (The Agency of Wind, 1999)

...reads like the bewitched counsel of an herbalist dwelling deep within the enchanted forest of language. -The Stranger (Lore, 1998)

Words murmur a music of spine and scented resin. Their aggressive approach to linguistic play and totemic vision offer a genuine mechanism for the dilation of the pupils. -Sulfur (Rebecca Letters, 1997)