The Loudest Honey
LYLA FOREST BUTLER
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“With poems that skillfully and exuberantly celebrate youth and it’s processions towards maturity, Lyla Butler’s The Loudest Honey offeres a clear voice as she.”
ABOUT.
LYLA FOREST BUTLER is a fourteen-year-old lover of life, native of Brooklyn, and poet. She won the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Student Poetry Contest for three years in a row and has also received other awards for her writing, including a gold key in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the UNIS Student Haiku Contest in 2018. Lyla lives with her parents, her little brother, two French bulldogs and a cat. In her spare time, Lyla loves to do theater, play softball, karate, art, and music.
THE LOUDEST HONEY is a poetic journey of a teenage girl's exploration of the world. Lyla uses poetry to make sense of the chaos that is adolescence. In The Loudest Honey, Lyla pays tribute to the great loves of her lifetime spent in nature, with loved ones, and the many corners of her mind. For Lyla, language is a playground. Lyla's words spring up whole worlds, sing sweet ballads and whisper intimate secrets. To understand Lyla's poetry one must open their hearts to a world full of possibilities unencumbered by cynicism and bursting with hope.
What People Are Saying
“Lyla Butler’s debut book of poems is a vivid and perceptive collection full of heart, humor and delightful curiosity.”
— Amber Tamblyn, author of Dark Sparkler
“Lyla Butler’s hearfelt poems are about a girl dicovering her own sense of joy, her own language, and her unique place in the world.”
— Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love and Forest Dark
“I’ve always known Lyla to be a brilliant light. This poetry show just how bright she can shine.”
— Fab Moretti, The Strokes
