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A Sand Book Hardcover – June 18, 2019

by Ariana Reines (Author)
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  1. Print length
    323 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Tin House Books
  4. Publication date
    June 18, 2019
  5. Dimensions
    6.4 x 1.3 x 9.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1947793322
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1947793323
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"Her writing is queer and raunchy, raw and occult, seemingly never pulling away from her deepest vulnerabilities. Yet Reines simultaneously maintains a feeling of epic poetry, of ancient intention. She moves between worlds in search of the divine and the self."
― The New York Times

"Reines' wildly rewarding poems are connected through clarity of voice, generous irreverence, and seemingly limitless purview... it truly contains multitudes."
― Booklist (Starred Review)

"These are the kinds of poems that reorient you in the world, make you understand how little you know, but how much is inside you. Lines like 'the suffering of woman is/ the story of the universe' will linger in the front of your skull, imprinting themselves on your consciousness in a way that feels risky and real, like you've unlocked the key to some hidden truth, some undiscovered light."
― NYLON

"Maybe you don't automatically reach for poetry when you're plugging the Coors into your beach cooler, but Ariana Reines' A Sand Book is an epic, perfect beach read. At nearly 400 pages, this gorgeous and terrifying travelogue and book of mourning has enough poems to get you from blue June to haunted October. "
― Karen Russell, GQ

"Mind-blowing."
― Kim Gordon

"Ariana Reines is my favorite living poet, and A Sand Book is one of her greatest acts of alchemy: a poetic supernova transcending magazine feminism, faultless views, the branding of basically everything. To be fully human requires an act of sorcery nowadays, and Reines is that sorceress."
― Melissa Broder

"Ariana Reines is a go-for-broke artist who honors her traditions by being like no one else. Some of us have made a fetish of our stupidity, pretending to forget history, and some of us have made a fetish of despair, congratulating ourselves on melancholia, but Ariana is too brilliant and too alive for either of those sad luxuries. Her poems and various performances and even her posts are fetishes in a much deeper sense: they are sites of (and screens for) irrational and transpersonal powers. I am convinced of the authenticity of the summonses she receives and the summonses she issues and when I read her I am reminded that all of this is a calling before it’s an identity or career. Her voice―which is always more than hers alone―is a dialectic between the very ancient and the bleeding edge. I just looked up “bleeding edge” on Wikipedia and here is what it says: “A technology may be considered bleeding edge where it contains a degree of risk.” There might be “a lack of consensus.” Or “a lack of testing.” There might be “industry resistance to change.” With Ariana’s art the risks are real and we should run them."
― Ben Lerner

"Read her for the power of her vision, and for her willingness to look at tragedy, whether personal or planetary, head-on. As the planet grows hotter, as civilization becomes increasingly brutal, banal, and irreal, a voice as powerful as Reines’s is too valuable to neglect. A Sand Book is a necessary guide to a future rapidly becoming the present, a map of the desert we all have to navigate."
― Adroit Journal

"A Sand Book’s achievement, in its lyricism and its philosophy, cannot be understated. With this book of books, Reines transmits and distils the miasma of our reality―in all of its impossible completeness―in order to leave us with something that feels like truth."
― SSENSE

"Reines’s books are works of intellectual commitment and structural sophistication; at the same time, they allow the raw stuff of being, in all its messiness, to enter the page. . . . It is Western poetry returned to its ‘epic’ classical origins – meaty and full of drama, with more Big Dick Energy than any ‘Great American Novel’."
― The White Review

"Reines opens us to new possible uses of language."
― the Hong Kong Review of Books

About the Author

Ariana Reines is author of Mercury (2011) The Cow (2006) and Coeur de Lion (2007). Her play Telephone was produced at the Cherry Lane Theater and won several Obie awards. Reines was 2009 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California Berkeley; she has taught master classes at Pomona College, the University of California Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in New York, NY.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tin House Books; 1st edition (June 18, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 323 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1947793322
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1947793323
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.55 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.3 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings

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Hey, thanks for stopping by! My name is Ariana Reines. I was born in Salem Massachusetts. I'm a poet. I make books and performances about love, ethics, mourning, rage, magic, and the search for the sacred in this information age. I also teach and make theatre and write essays and work with people one-on-one through my online astrology practice Lazy Eye Haver. You can visit me on the interwebs at arianareines.net or on Instagram at @arianareines.

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R. Brezsny
5.0 out of 5 stars Simultaneously heart-breaking and uplifting
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and funny
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5.0 out of 5 stars Epic poetry book
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