Lana Del Rey has released the audiobook version of her new poetry collection Violet bent backwards on the grass. Read by Del Rey, the project also features music from his frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff. It is already available through Interscope and is available for purchase. Check out the sample track “LA Who Am I To Love You” below.
The singer announced Violet bent backwards on the grass in December. The hardcover and ebook versions will be released on September 29, and the CDs and LPs will arrive a few days later on October 2. It is the first of two new poetry projects that Del Rey has shared plans for this year. The other, titled behind the iron gates: ideas of an institution, does not yet have a confirmed release date. Del Rey shared in May a selection titled “patent leather do-over” from that collection.
When she announced Violet bent backwards on the grassDel Rey said half of the proceeds “would benefit Native American organizations across the country, either to preserve their rights or to try to help keep their lands intact.” She announced the Navajo Water Project as the beneficiary in July. She said in a follow-up post that her Violet The advance would also benefit “different Native American projects,” but she did not provide further clarification.
Del Rey also has a new album slated for September 5, which he announced in a long Instagram post on May 21. While writing about the perception that it “glamorizes abuse,” her comments on artists like Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, and Cardi B came under fire on social media. She clarified her comments with another Instagram post on May 23, saying she had wanted to address “the importance of self-defense for the most delicate and often dismissed female personality.”
Read Pitchfork’s “Life, Freedom, and the Quest for Happiness: A Conversation with Lana Del Rey”.
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