\'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many.
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is also brought to life in an unprecedented spoken word audiobook which features Lana Del Rey reading fourteen select poems from the book accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning musician Jack Antonoff..
The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator.
This beautiful hardcOver edition showcases Lana’s typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography.
The collection features more than thirty poems, many exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires, Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum and many more.
Lana Del Rey Lana’s breathtaking first book solidifies her further as \'the essential writer of her times\' (The Atlantic).
They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I’m proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic.
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. \'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many
