"Laynie Browne's deeply moving Intaglio Daughters follows Lyn Hejinian's The Unfollowing section by section. Hejinian's book deals with the effect of sudden loss. It might be too simple to say that Browne's is a gesture of reconnection and healing-but it wouldn't be entirely wrong either. Each of these rondel jewel-like poems takes off from a line of Hejinian's and circles back at the end to rewrite/ re-envision it. It is Browne's uncannily good ear that makes it work. In an age of suspicion and careless wreckage, Browne's homage to Hejinian, her affirmation of relation and lineage, is both surprising and necessary."

-Rae Armantrout

"Brilliant, playful, tender, intimate, and funny, Laynie Browne's Intaglio Daughters is an homage that follows Lyn Hejinian's The Unfollowing through unreason's door. Each 13-line poem begins with a line from Hejinian's text and ends with the same line remixed and re-sounded. The effect is dazzling, vibrational-as Browne puts it, "enacting a rhyme." Following unfollowing does not impose logic onto Hejinian's non-sequitur sonnet elegies, but instead activates vivid soundscapes of relationality. If intaglio prints a line from etched out absence, maybe intaglio daughters are beings born of loss who take up the elegiac project to wield spells against death. Browne demonstrates how sound itself-like love, and like loss-renders experience luminously charged. In Intaglio Daughters, Browne sings the skies and songs that Hejinian's work opens up in and for contemporary poetry. Celebrating the generative powers of mentorship, friendship, and love, this is an amazing book."

-Claire Marie Stancek

"Laynie Browne's Intaglio Daughters simmers Fahrenheit, as fecund utterance, always renewing itself via living phonemic activity."

-Will Alexander