Bibliograph

A sand book, Ariana Reines

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Label

A sand book, Ariana Reines

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

A sand book

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1053999646

Responsibility statement

Ariana Reines

Summary

A Sand Book is a poetry collection in nine parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. From Hurricane Sandy to the murder of Sandra Bland to the massacre at Sandy Hook, from the sand in the gizzards of birds to the desertified mountains of Haiti, from Attar's "Conference of the Birds" to Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls" to Twitter, A Sand Book is about change and quantification, the relationship between catastrophe and cultural transmission. It moves among houses of worship and grocery stores, flitters between geological upheaval and the weird weather of the Internet. In her long-awaited follow-up to Mercury, Reines has written her most ambitious work to date, but also her most visceral and satisfying

Table Of Contents

Arena -- Twelfth night -- A partial history of iridescence -- Gizzard -- Safeway -- Armorica -- Thursday -- The saddest year of my life -- Tiffany's poems -- Nine neoclassical poems -- FKN ziggurats -- Mosaic

Target audience

adult

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