new from above/ground press : Daily Self-Portrait Valentine, by Laynie Browne

Daily Self-Portrait Valentine
Laynie Browne
$6

As if that trunk were 
My torso corseted
Stitched in pictures
Gathering every
Day is not a difficult
Task but what I want
To know is how to sift 
Arrange and compile
Sustain an ongoing
Impermanent season

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Laynie Browne's recent books of poetry include: Apprentice to a Breathing Hand (Omnidawn, 2025), Everyone & Her Resemblances (Pamenar, 2024), Intaglio Daughters (Ornithopter 2023), and Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022). 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.

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