"Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass" Hardcover Poetry Book - Post-Release Discussion Thread

[5Rick 2,925]

There will be a Spanish version of Violet: https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-violet-hace-el-puente-sobre-la-hierba/9788448028237/12173417

[Thunder Revenant 20,943]

5 minutes ago, 5Rick said:

There will be a Spanish version of Violet: https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-violet-hace-el-puente-sobre-la-hierba/9788448028237/12173417

I do't know why, but the translation is just somewhat funny. "hacer el puente" sounds like it is some sort of yoga-instruction

[Yosemite 23,786]

24 minutes ago, Thunder Corpse said:

I do't know why, but the translation is just somewhat funny. "hacer el puente" sounds like it is some sort of yoga-instruction

Yeah I get you but that’s exactly what bent backwards means, the position itself

[Thunder Revenant 20,943]

8 hours ago, Yosemite said:

Yeah I get you but that’s exactly what bent backwards means, the position itself

Yeah I'm aware. I just think it's a title that's hard to translate without getting goofy

[Yosemite 23,786]

8 minutes ago, Thunder Corpse said:

Yeah I'm aware. I just think it's a title that's hard to translate without getting goofy

For sure.

I’m a translator myself and I don’t know how would I do it tbh, if I had too much choice on that, bc we often don’t 

[SouthInGuy 1,699]

On 2/26/2021 at 5:42 PM, 5Rick said:

There will be a Spanish version of Violet: https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-violet-hace-el-puente-sobre-la-hierba/9788448028237/12173417

I definitely need to add this to my collection. Does anyone have any links for other places selling this Spanish version? Maybe easier to order in the US? I'm coming up blank on the google. 

[5Rick 2,925]

48 minutes ago, SouthInGuy said:

I definitely need to add this to my collection. Does anyone have any links for other places selling this Spanish version? Maybe easier to order in the US? I'm coming up blank on the google. 

https://www.amazon.com/Violet-puente-hierba-Música-Spanish/dp/8448028236 

You could pre-order on Amazon US not so long ago! Maybe if you wait for the official release date (end of March) it will eventually be available again 

[BluebirdXO 7,679]

My order arrived today and I finished my first reading.

 

This book is so beautiful and thoughtful. You can really feel that she put her heart into it. My only complain is that I wish it was longer. I kept reading the same page over and over again to create the illusion that it had more poems. I'm looking forward to read it tomorrow with a new perspective

 

[Lustformoney 41,443]

they are making a polish version and you can preorder it and I CHOKED SO HARD SJDJN the title is literally "Violet gets in a bridge position on the grass" and meaning Violet as a person hjghjdjhj this better be an april fools joke

https://www.empik.com/violet-robi-mostek-na-trawie-lana-del-rey,p1267289171,ksiazka-p?fromSearchQuery=violet+robi+mostek

[Dominikx4 25,404]

1 hour ago, Lustformoney said:

they are making a polish version and you can preorder it and I CHOKED SO HARD SJDJN the title is literally "Violet gets in a bridge position on the grass" and meaning Violet as a person hjghjdjhj this better be an april fools joke

https://www.empik.com/violet-robi-mostek-na-trawie-lana-del-rey,p1267289171,ksiazka-p?fromSearchQuery=violet+robi+mostek

... but violet is a person. shes a child

https://genius.com/Lana-del-rey-violet-bent-backwards-over-the-grass-annotated

 

[Lustformoney 41,443]

24 minutes ago, Dominikx4 said:

... but violet is a person. shes a child

https://genius.com/Lana-del-rey-violet-bent-backwards-over-the-grass-annotated

 

Either way the translation is ridiculous, idk how to translate it into English but it sounds so fucking dumb

[urgirl 5,747]

I can only pick this up once in a while. It makes me profoundly emotional. I see why some people think this is the best thing she has ever created. 

[Beautiful Loser 48,799]

Very random: Violet will be translated into Swedish and out for sale September 11th 2021! “Violet böjde sig baklänges i gräset”, foreword by this music journalist I know and huge Lana fan Fredrik Strage, ISBN: 9789198696028.

[Furor Poeticus 16,351]

Thoughts on Rachel Oates's video?

[Beautiful Loser 48,799]

On 6/29/2021 at 4:28 PM, Clampigirl said:

Very random: Violet will be translated into Swedish and out for sale September 11th 2021! “Violet böjde sig baklänges i gräset”, foreword by this music journalist I know and huge Lana fan Fredrik Strage, ISBN: 9789198696028.

I just saw the cover! (Thanks @Amadeus!)

[Beautiful Loser 48,799]

If anyone’s curious to hear a bit of the Swedish translation of “LA who am I to love you”, you can hear it at the end of this news audio clip:

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/sa-later-lana-del-reys-poesi-i-strages-oversattning

[SalvaWHORE 34,006]

Can't tell how much i am craving for the instrumental of this album 

The audiobook literally helps me a lot in dealing woth insomnia

[x VB 12,508]

There’s a Polish version of Violet on Amazon

http://Violet robi mostek na trawie https://www.amazon.it/dp/8382102107/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_0W2Z9PV651ZNC6TNV4BK

[x VB 12,508]

An Italian version was set to be released on April 1st 2021, then the book was pushed back for a June release but that’s all I found. It’s called “Violet”

[Super Movie 51,663]

This is honestly one of my favorite Lana projects ever (and I think that the audiobook has some of her best instrumentals, I love listening to it on long car rides). The hardcover is really smooth and it feels nice to hold while you're reading. And I love the pictures Lana chose to incorporate into the book. The poems themselves are nice too, I enjoy them a lot more than I was expecting to when Lana first announced the project. Quite a few of them seem pretty "stream of consciousness" based, but I think that it works well for Lana.