REINES, Ariana
A Sand Book (US edition)

Exceeding all predictions
As I write you

A Sand Book, Ariana Reines’ latest book of poems (+ a few pictures). The title comes from Paul Celan, whose words come as an epigraph: “NO MORE SAND ART, no sand book, no masters.” Reines’s sense of refusal and urgency is more intense than ever in this volume, part-chronicle, part-epic, loaded with mourning AND ardor. Let’s add that Eileen Myles qualifies Reines’ writing as “lewd, broken, narcissistic,” and Jenny Zhang as “female/queer/weird.” What are you waiting for.

Published by Tin House Books, 2020
Poetry