Antediluvian Sonnets Format: Trade Paperback

Antediluvian Sonnets sets out to reflect and refract the ways time is constantly bent, especially through elegy. This book is also a love letter and homage text, tracing the lineage of experiments received from one mother of the modern sonnet, Bernadette Mayer. Loss is ageless, and transmutes the notion of any life being linear. Form is another way to consider time, another way for the ancient to become the future.

Laynie Browne's recent books of poetry include Everyone & Her Resemblances (Pamenar 2024) and Intaglio Daughters (Ornithopter 2023). She co-edited the anthology I’ ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press) and edited the anthology A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet’ s Novel (Nightboat). Honors include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award for her collection The Scented Fox, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award for her collection Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.