Simon & Schuster Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass poetry book and spoken word album has a release date.
The book will arrive on September 29, while its accompanying audio companion, which finds Del Rey reading a selection of the poems while Jack Antonoff-composed music plays in the background, is due out July 28.
"Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many," Del Rey says in a statement. "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."
She continues, "They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I'm proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic."
Del Rey first announced that she was making a spoken word album last December, though the project's been delayed several times.
Meanwhile, Del Rey is also planning to release a new album called Chemtrails Over the Country Club -- the follow-up to 2019's Grammy-nominated Norman F***ing Rockwell -- on September 5.
Del Rey made that announcement amid defending her controversial Instagram post in May, in which she wrote that she was being condemned for "glamorizing abuse" while artists such as Doja Cat, Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Cardi B, Kehlani, Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé were notching hit singles with "songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, f***ing [and] cheating."
Many users on social media called Del Rey out for primarily naming women of color to illustrate how she herself was allegedly being victimized.
By Josh Johnson
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