ARIANA REINES
Winner of the Alberta Prize from Fence Books, Reines is a poet who is "fiercer and wilder"* than one could ever expect.
With Angie Yuan
Winner of the Alberta Prize from Fence Books, Reines is a poet who is "fiercer and wilder"* than one could ever expect.
With Angie Yuan
Descriptions of Reine's first book, The Cow (FenceBooks 2007) tend to settle on some combination of disgust and pleasure: it's been called "brutal, ugly, beautiful, " "exuberantly obscene"* and "an unsettling balance between beauty and horror."** The visceral, "repulsive," aspects of the book are mined (by the poet and, more disturbingly, by the reader) for a certain kind of pleasure-in-displeasure. The book turns our faces to something terrible and wonderous, something from which we can't look away; The Cow asks us to account for our hungers and to reconcile desire with its grotesque counterpart. --Hillary Gravendyk
Ariana Reines is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize, FenceBooks: 2007) and Coeur de Lion (mal-o-mar: 2007). Forthcoming translations include My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire, (mal-o-mar: 2008) and the carnet noir of Griselidis Real (Semiotex(e): 2009). She is under commission with the Foundry Theatre to create a play based on The Telephone Book by Avital Ronell. Writings have appeared or are forthcoming in /nor, webconjunctions, action yes, and tema celeste.
*Josh Corey
**Mike MacDonough
*Josh Corey
**Mike MacDonough
