Translating the Lilies Back into Lists

• Digital galley and print review copy mailings to major book reviews, literary journals, and library buyers' guides.
• Author interview pitches.
• Social media campaign.
• Outreach to independent booksellers, especially in PA and NY.
• Outreach to poetry and related literary organizations, including CD Wright Conference.
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author events.
• Display at conferences and bookfairs including Brooklyn Book Festival and especially AWP in Pittsburg for 2022, as Laynie lives near there.
• Co-op available

From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.

Laynie Browne's latest poetry collection, Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists playfully employs the list poem and delivers poems which evade genre and subvert the quotidian material of daily life. These poems consider elegy, absence and bewilderment while allowing associative logic to make poetic leaps in imagination and mood that belie convention. This book explores the myriad ways one could attempt to categorize a lived experience with its dizzying infinitudes by marking it in finite language, and ultimately shows how poetry is an experiment for that translation Browne's exquisite collection considers language, time, and poetics in a way that is as electrifying as it is elusive. In homage to poet C.D. Wright, her title is inspired by Translations of the Gospel Back into Tongues.