Daily Sonnets

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Laynie Browne

2007

Counterpath Press

"From her daily life, Browne derives a sense of writing written uncunningly, not so much by repudiating the made autotelic perfection of the traditional poem — of the sonnet in particular as a (holy) form — as by implying that in reality we don’t live our writing lives that way.  Her unsequential sonnet sequence explores the daily influxes of the moments of which and in which the poems are composed. She makes the ordinary extraordinary."—PoemTalk

"It’s a stunner and a delight. A pure dose of heady oxygen...an icon for the generations of poets who are about to show up.”—Ron Silliman