The singer Lana Del Rey says she wants to publish a book of her own poetry and she has already written “13 kind of long poems”.
The musician is now working on a new album, which she announced on 18 September would be called ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell’.
Speaking to Zane Lowe, she said she also had other creative endeavours on the go that she had recently realised could be something she could share with the wider world. “I didn’t think I would [publish them] until three weeks ago,” she said, discussing her poetry.
While she was speaking to Zane Lowe she mentioned about her other creative endeavours that she had recently realised that she could share something with the wider world. “I didn’t think I would [publish them] until three weeks ago,” she said, discussing her poetry.
“I have like 13 kind of long poems that I started binding and I thought, ‘Wow, the pages are kind of stacking up here.’ I mean, it’s easy too with haikus because it’s only three lines so you could have like 30 pages of haikus that’s only like 200 words or something. But I thought they’re kind of like stacking up to look like a real book. So I mean what I’d like to do is sort of self publish but I’m not very good at the distribution side of things.”
She also disclosed that she has already chosen a title for the book. “Right now, it’s tentatively called Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass,” she said. “That’s just from a line in one of my favourite poems that I wrote….Yeah, ‘Seven years old with dandelions grasped tightly in her hand.’”
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