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Synopsis
Poetry. This delightful book, beautifully publsihed by Avec books, follows Browne's REBECCA LETTERS (Kesley St.) and LORE (Instress) with more of her unique lightness of touch and capacious vison. 'Which way to the windmaker's door?/ If you want to know you'll have to ask the doormaker.' A riddling, wind-activated poem describing the transformative adventures of a girl and a crane. Page after page, deckled with light, whistle headfirst into a journey, a conversation, a host of insoluble dilemmas, 'questions swept over a chasm.' THE AGENCY OF WIND yields the imagnative pleasures of a Leonora Carrington painting with the verbal vivacity and exactitude already characteristic of a Laynie Browne.--C.D. Wright. Laynie Browne's pieces of universal udefulness -- poem/stories written for childre/sages, Sumerian lore/from the twenty-third century, profoundly formal/whimsically freeing -- are a particular, innovative delight. -- Stacy Dorris.
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About the Author
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.
Review
" 'Which way to the windmaker's door?/ If you want to know you'll have to ask the doormaker.' A riddling, wind-activated poem describing the transformative adventures of a girl and a crane. Page after page, deckled with light, whistle headfirst into a journey, a conversation, a host of insoluble dilemmas, 'questions swept over a chasm.' THE AGENCY OF WIND yields the imagnative pleasures of a Leonora Carrington painting with the verbal vivacity and exactitude already characteristic of a Laynie Browne." -- C.D. Wright
"The gentle quality of Laynie Browne's prose is perfectly suited for this ethereal tale." -- Bernadette Mayer
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- PublisherAvec Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1880713128
- ISBN 13 9781880713129
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages125
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