Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey

Narrated by: Lana Del Rey

Length: 39 mins

Publisher's summary

The highly anticipated spoken-word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass.

'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 I’m proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic.' (Lana Del Rey)

Lana Del Rey brings her breathtaking poetry to life in an unprecedented audiobook. In this stunning spoken-word performance, Lana Del Rey reads 14 poems from her debut book Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning musician Jack Antonoff.

Lana’s debut book solidifies her further as 'the essential writer of her times' (The Atlantic). This audiobook features Lana reading select poems from the book, including 'LA Who Am I to Love You?', 'The Land of 1,000 Fires', 'Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving', 'Never to Heaven', 'Tessa DiPietro', 'Happy' and several others. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator.

©2020 Lana Del Rey (P)2020 Simon & Schuster UK

Lana del rey i love u

This is my first audio book and i love it, it got me through dark times and I cant thank lana enough for her amazing pottery, voice, and her iconic personality. I love u and i will do the impossible to see u on ur next tour for norman f***ing rockwell or ur next album. U are a treasure that should e protected with all costs ly and tysm for everything.

Personal

Love this project so much. I can’t believe she shared her thoughts, hopes, fears and everything else with us.
love you forever lana

Perfect but out of sequence

Loved the book, however the audio chapters are not divided in the original sequence as in the book.

I think I just astral projected

the flavour........ its immaculate
talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique.

amazing

I honestly did not know what to expect because it is the first time that lana works in something like this, but I really enjoyed it

Anticipated 2020’s story

I have been waiting for this for so long when she first announced that she’s working on a poetry book. I think Lana speaks for all of us - love, longing, and home - big cities. Things we can relate. Some might think the content could be self-centered, but that what makes this piece is relatable to a lot of us. It’s the experience and stories from a real person and it’s a story that we all share together. Lana put every emotions and feelings into the words that nobody could write beyond this in our era. Thank u Lana. I love you.

Lana won’t never let you down

I’m so glad
i’m here in this time of life
where lana is alive
And feeding me this pure art

I’m in love with everything about this audiobook. Love you lana.

She's Too Perfect For This World

She was amazing as always, her voice, the atmosphere, meanings... Everything was just too perfect.

Beautiful poet.

It is something so beautiful and , transmits so many feelings with each word that makes you connect with the poem and feel part of it.