The poet's novel as a form of defiance: indeterminate frame - laynie browne

Is there such a thing as a poets novel, a text which uniquely traverses boundaries between genres? Why do poets turn to prose? If such a form does exist, how is it characterized? The Poets Novel , a talk by Laynie Browne, presented with drawings by Noah Saterstrom , examines this erratic, hybrid and often elusive form.

Writers discussed include Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, and Lydia Davis, among others.

Poet and novelist Laynie Browne is the editor of a forthcoming collection of essays, A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poets Novel .