Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey WW Norton & Co Deane finds a contemporary voice

Deane finds a contemporary voice for a renewed faith and a new poetics

this anthology brings together all the anthems

The prose poems in The Underground Cabaret form the final volume of a quartet

These poems are elegiac

involving a careful dissociation from his past

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey WW Norton & Co Deane finds a contemporary voice'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason Im proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was