Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Ratings46
Average rating3.4
The best thing about this book is the aesthetics. I love the cover, the paintings, I even enjoyed how the pictures were printed. There are some good lines in there as well, but the poetry itself is only ok. Maybe less so than ok.
As far as Lana Del Rey as a celebrity goes I don't like her very much. I think some of the pretentious white girl shines through in this book.
How wonderful that my 100th book of the year was a poetry collection that actually resonated with me. Miracles happen every day
It's cool to see how after this book her songs became way more poetic and with stronger emotions. Some of the poems here were so freespirited that they ended too soon and made too little of a point. But the poems in here definitely were some transition in her creative journey which let her make songs later on like never before.
Listen to this with the audio, don't miss it, it's quite immersive and elevates this from a meh experience.
I made a poem video a day after reading it, I feel like it inspired me to mess around with the medium in a way Lana did. THANKS.
It's surprisingly short. I listened to the audio version narrated by Lana and it was nice; very similar to her music. It has that same peach-scented, out-of-focus sort of atmosphere, heavy with melancholy. My favorite is SportCruiser.
i just... idk why but i felt like this book was her humble bragging but we're also supposed to feel sorry for her? i don't think she really portrayed the ~dark side of fame~ very well here... i just feel like writing in verse made this book that much more pretentious - i'd love to see what she could do in prose though. also tbh if so many people didn't love lana's music, i doubt this collection would be rated so high on here