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You Envelop Me

Laynie Browne

How does one in mourning converse with those absent, yet ever present? How is a motherless daughter conceived? What befalls those who succumb to waves of grief akin to contractions of birth? You Envelop Me is woven from contemplative practices that permit us to approach the unimaginable. The world with the beloved removed is permanently altered, perhaps most significantly in the way the living learn that indispensable vision occurs beyond the visible world.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Omnidawn
  • Publish Date: Oct 3rd, 2017
  • Pages: 88
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.00in - 0.30in - 0.30lb
  • EAN: 9781632430380
  • Categories: Women AuthorsSubjects & Themes - Death, Grief, LossAmerican - General

About the Author

Browne, Laynie: - Laynie Browne is the author of seventeen collections of poems, three novels, and a book of short fiction. Her recent books of poetry include Intaglio Daughters, Practice Has No Sequel, Letters Inscribed in Snow, and Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists. She coedited I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women and edited A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel. Her work has appeared in publications including Conjunctions, A Public Space, New American Writing, BrooklynRail, and in anthologies including The Ecopoetry Anthology, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. Honors include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award. She teaches creative writing and coordinates the MOOC Modern Poetry at the University of Pennsylvania.

Praise for this book

..".Laynie Browne's You Envelop Me, a book-length elegy for Patricia Browne...in Laynie's book I find some instruction in how to be in mourning, and loss not as a deadening of life but a threshold into a truer attention to it. Here the poem, the page, is a daily ritual that seeks balm where there is harm without ever denying the harm's fact--for Laynie, I think, the poem is a kind of healing magic."--Dan Beachy-Quick "Poetry Magazine" (1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Browne's grieving subject is the threshed and chafing ample grain of her own grief. Just so, You Envelop Me is a panoply of vibrancy--the opening pages are filled with the presence of angels and birds and textiles and treasures--even as it tries to work through the death and deep absence of a loved one. The jarring tension to which Browne exposes us in You Envelop Me is the insatiable abundance of the world that rims around and shadows every total loss."--Kylan Rice "Galatea Resurrects Blog" (1/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)