Lana Del Rey has released her first collection of spoken word poetry, and even the title – Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass – is so, well, her: The Video Games singer dropped the spoken word recording of the 14-song collection yesterday, with a hardcover book version out 29 September.The Navajo Water Project is a beneficiary of the release, and will receive half the proceeds.In a statement on her official website, LDR said: ‘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.
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