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A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet's Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes, Kevin Killian, Alice Notley, Fernando Pessoa, Rainer Maria Rilke, Leslie Scalapino, Jack Spicer, and Jean Toomer, whose approaches to the novel defy conventions of plot, character, setting, and action. Contributors Brian Blanchfield, Anne Boyer, John Keene, Monica de la Torre, Cedar Sigo, and C. D. Wright bring a variety of insights, approaches, and writing styles to the subject with creative and often surprisingresults.

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You thought you were aware of what poetry could mean to you, could do to you, then her poems did something new to you. -CAConrad Laynie Browne has a knack for moving between worlds to channel an orchestra of animal, vegetable, and mineral voices. -Lisa Jarnot Laynie Browne's You Envelop Me, written in the tradition of elegy, attempts to come to terms with the continuing presence of absence. -Claudia Rankine

This generous anthology will have a place on the shelves of literature professors and grad students. -Publishers Weekly Whether engaged in close reading, philosophical discussion, literary discourse or theoretical deconstruction, this book articulates and extends that conversation. It is a challenging, focused and exciting read. -Tears in the Fence You thought you were aware of what poetry could mean to you, could do to you, then her poems did something new to you. -CAConrad Laynie Browne's You Envelop Me, written in the tradition of elegy, attempts to come to terms with the continuing presence of absence. -Claudia Rankine Laynie Browne has a knack for moving between worlds to channel an orchestra of animal, vegetable, and mineral voices. -Lisa Jarnot

You thought you were aware of what poetry could mean to you, could do to you, then her poems did something new to you. -CAConrad Laynie Browne has a knack for moving between worlds to channel an orchestra of animal, vegetable, and mineral voices. -Lisa Jarnot Laynie Browne's You Envelop Me, written in the tradition of elegy, attempts to come to terms with the continuing presence of absence. -Claudia Rankine

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Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, teacher and editor. She is author of thirteen collections of poems and three novels. Her most recent collections include a book of poems You Envelop Me (Omnidawn 2017), a novel Periodic Companions (Tinderbox 2018) and short fiction in two editions, one French, and one English in The Book of Moments (Presses universitaires de rouen et du havre, 2018). Her honors include a 2014 Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award (2007) for her collection The Scented Fox, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award (2005) for her collection Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Catalan. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and at Swarthmore College.

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