Wave of Blood

by Ariana Reines

Overview

WAVE OF BLOOD is an experimental essay in the poetry of witness, a contemporary war notebook, extending through the US wars on terror that officially began in 2001.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781739516147
Publisher:	Divided Publishing
Publication date:	01/03/2025
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ariana Reines is a poet, playwright, and performing artist from Salem, Massachusetts and based in New York. Her books include A Sand Book (2019)—winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Award and longlisted for the National Book Award—Mercury, Coeur de Lion, and The Cow, which won the Alberta Prize from Fence in 2006. Her poetry and prose have been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, Artforum, Frieze, Harper’s, and many others.

Read an Excerpt

The history of love is hard
To write because it is made
Of the same intestinal pulses
That all bad things in this
World emanate from – the sparks
Of desire and mutual recognition
The giving to another the power
To render you meaningless