{"product_id":"apprentice-to-a-breathing-hand-9781632431615","title":"Apprentice to a Breathing Hand","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoetry that considers how we live with constant shifts, positioning alchemy as an example of endless change.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poetry of Laynie Browne's \u003ci\u003eApprentice to a Breathing Hand\u003c\/i\u003e explores alchemy, connectivity, and perception. Throughout the collection, Browne considers the formation and limits of personhood, the experience of a body moving through time, and the imperative to continually learn and unlearn. Browne looks to alchemy as a practice for cultivating the impossible, positioning it as a fitting model for our current moment. In the material of language, meaning must be unmade and remade endlessly, and in this continual regeneration, Browne considers the alchemy of how a poem can in turn transform the poet. Moving through methods of making and unmaking, the collection centers on the figure of an apprentice working in a space of indeterminacy, lack, breath, and constant shifting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaynie Browne \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of seventeen collections of poems, three novels, and a book of short fiction. Her recent books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eIntaglio Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePractice Has No Sequel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLetters Inscribed in Snow\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTranslation of the Lilies Back into Lists\u003c\/i\u003e. She coedited \u003ci\u003eI'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women \u003c\/i\u003eand edited \u003ci\u003eA Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in publications including \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew American Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRail\u003c\/i\u003e, and in anthologies including \u003ci\u003eThe Ecopoetry Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Reality Street Book of Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. Honors include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award. She teaches creative writing and coordinates the MOOC Modern Poetry at the University of Pennsylvania. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Omnidawn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552807715090,"sku":"9781632431615","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_db01c872-6ecc-4a7d-9b26-5f01c01051ee.jpg?v=1772006518","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/apprentice-to-a-breathing-hand-9781632431615","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}