Information about Lana Del Rey’s new book of poetry, as well as its accompanying Jack Antonoff-produced audiobook, has been detailed in product listings on Amazon and Waterstones sighted by The FADER.
Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass will be released in a 112-page hardcover format on September 29, while the audiobook version, previously described as a “spoken word album” by Del Rey, will run 33 minutes and be released on July 28.
In the audiobook, 14 poems from the collection will be set to music by Antonoff. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is also the name of a poem in the book, and is “the first poem [Del Rey] wrote of many.” “Some [poems] came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked.
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