Wave of Blood - Ariana Reines (Divided Books)

Is it the computerization of the planet

Or a loosening of my fidelity to suffering

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 . . .

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

978-1-7395161-4-7

21.6 x 13.9 cm

200 pp.Paperback

October 2024

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Ariana Reines is an American poet, playwright, performance artist, and translator. Her books of poetry include The Cow (2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books; Coeur de Lion (2007); Mercury (2011); and Thursday (2012). She has taught at UC Berkeley (Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry, 2009), Columbia University (2013), The New School (2013), and Tufts University (2014).