Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the first published collection of poetry by singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey. Gathering more than thirty original poems alongside the author's own photographs, the book extends the dreamy, confessional sensibility of her music onto the page.

The poems range from long, free-verse meditations — including the title piece — to shorter, more fragmentary reflections, moving through familiar Del Rey territory: California and its highways, fame and its costs, love, grief, longing, and the search for meaning and self-worth. Written, as she describes it, in a spirit of honesty and vulnerability, the collection reads like a private notebook opened to the reader.

Intimate, unpolished by design, and threaded with the imagery of Los Angeles and the American landscape, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass offers a personal, unguarded look at one of contemporary music's most distinctive voices in a new form.