About this item
A Sand Book is a poetry collection in 12 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 Attars "Conference of the Birds" to Chaucers "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.
About the Author
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.
