Reviews
The Agency
of Wind
by Laynie Browne
From Outlet:
"...Like Scheherazade,
Lewis Carroll, or Shakespeare of the late romances, Browne possesses
an ability to dazzle the reader by creating wonderous worlds in
which the usual laws of plausibility are suspended. Indeed, her writing
is saturated with the echoes, not only of these writers, but of numerous
other sources derived from the canon of fabulist literature...the
erotic here is central, but remote. The libidinal decentering of the
writing revisions our expectations of both pleasure and disappointment.
Motivated and continuously re-constituted by mystery and need, the
poems are the fractured artifacts rather than the simulacra of
desire..."