Wave of Blood

by Ariana Reines

Overview

Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, WAVE OF BLOOD is a furious, strange and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness.

I don’t understand the intensity
I’ve hidden here but I know I despaired
Of finding a physical place to keep
My tears. Now what. Seas that go turquoise
When you stop looking at them . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781739516147
Publisher:	Divided Publishing
Publication date:	01/03/2025
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	337,503
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

Editorial Reviews

"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

"Mind-blowing." — Kim Gordon

“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.” — NYLON

"Ariana Reines is a go-for-broke artist who honors her traditions by being like no one else." — Ben Lerner

"In a style characteristic of the New York School, her work is embodied, often painfully so, as she intrepidly goes where the poem moves her, from Western Europe to the Middle East, through war, ancestral grief, and insanity." — Juliette Jeffers, Interview Magazine

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