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A sand book

Title
A sand book / Ariana Reines.
Author
Reines, Ariana
Publication
  • Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
402 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
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.
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Alternative Title
Poems.
Subject
  • American poetry > 21st century
  • Poetry, Modern > 21st century
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Call Number
JFE 19-8459
ISBN
  • 9781947793323
  • 1947793322
LCCN
2019005819
OCLC
1053999646
Author
Reines, Ariana, author.
Title
A sand book / Ariana Reines.
Publisher
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Research Call Number
JFE 19-8459
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